Autodownloading phone book -- what does this do exactly?

[StephenMSmith]

What is purpose of Auto Downloading a phone's phonebook? When this option is enabled, then when a phone is connected you can't do much for a long time (I assume depending on phone book size) like stream bluetooth audio or switch to another bluetooth device for audio.

I notice that the phone's phonebook and call history are available immediately, so what functionality does auto-downloading the phonebook give me?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[flyingcolonel]

Well, it gives you hands free voice dialing, for openers.

 

[StephenMSmith]

But I have that already, as far as I can tell. Voice commands bring up entries in my phone's phonebook, although it doesn't recognize very well.

 

[meme405]

it never works well unless your phone book is filled with John Smith and Jane Roberts.

 

[GOFAST24]

The car seems to down load all my cell phone contacts into a seperate list in the hard drive but then I have to individually select any entrys from this list and place it in the actual "car" phone book one at a time? Does that sound right?

 

[tomwetherald]

I haven't been able to do the download of data from android. (06 tech bt) I have had other devices that had a similar feature, and i think it worked on some older standard which the phones no longer support?

I can add numbers to the phonebook manually and then call them via the voice command fine, just not download from phone.