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Quote: Originally Posted by dbsmith (original)

This may be an iPhone problem, not your Mini. For example, iPhones use a different bluetooth stack than 95% the rest of the known world, making it highly uncompatible with other systems: many people I know with iPhones have similar problems not only with their Minis but getting them to work with a multitude of things. I'd first get a "normal" blueooth phone (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) & see if it works OK with the Mini, that way you'll know it is an iPhone problem.

Hmm someone seems to be confusing their bluetooth stacks with bluetooth profiles. Compatibility between bluetooth products is determined by the profiles that each device supports. The Iphone and the BMW/Mini bluetooth systems (which are made by Visteon) both support the same profile and as such are compatibile. So an Iphone is probable one of the most compatible bluetooth phones to use with the BMW/Mini system.
Your comment about normal bluetooth phones from Nokia and Sony Ericcson is also somewhat erroneous. For example even though Ericcson was one of the original pioneers of bluetooth technology a lot of the Sony Ericsson phones do not support the same bluetooth profile as used by the BMW/Mini bluetooth system. The same is true for Nokia phones.