Does this mean Onstar only deducts minutes for outgoing calls and incomming calls are free?

 

nova....when I got the verizon phone connected The lady at verizon did something to add it to my acount then said I have to call onstar to have the phone turned on. I had to call onstar from the truck and she activated everything and gave me my number. She said that verizon CANNOT turn on an onstar phone..that they have a deal with verizon to control their own phones. I don't know if you can have it without onstar...I don't think I have onstar any longer...but I'm not sure...hmm...maybe I should check into that?

 

Please check into that. I don't want to have to pay Onstar just to have my truck phone turned on to use with my Verizon family plan.

Nova...
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The dealer told me the same thing and we still went with T-Mobile. It would have been really cool to have the phone in the hummer though. I had a few friends ask me about the On-Star though. One of them told me that with the new regulations on air waves (I'm a complete moron on the subject, if I can't see it to tear it apart I have a hard time understanding it) that On-Star will have to cancel all of the older versions. Does anyone know if this is true and if it is what is "older" version? Hopefully they have been working it in the cars they are producing and I don't loose the phone minutes that came with the truck.

 

The whole "you need to have a Verizon account" to make full use of the Hummers onboard Blue Tooth system is just greed on Hummers part or a great deal between Hummer and Verizon and OnStar.

I have seen a few ads for newer/upcoming cars that now have built in Blue Tooth, just Blue Tooth, for hands free driving, no need to get a seperate contract for Verizon or any one certain provider to use it.

To me, Idont understandwhy Hummer cant offer, OnStar OR Verizon OR just Blue Tooth since the Hummers are already wired up with a mic and a speaker, it would seem like a great selling point for Hummer to offer Blue Tooth ready trucks without being limited to a contract and getting a different number and paying higher rates with Verizon.

If Hummer cares about driving safety you would think they would love to offer hands free in all their products.

Cheers
Davyo

 

that's an easy one..GM and Verizon have a signed contract. Offering bluetooth would void that aggrement. Sucks but I can understand why GM did it $$$

 

I called Onstar last night and they connected me Hummer Cust Service. The guy looked it up and said that the ONLY GM that has bluetooth is the 05 CTS. Just FYI

 

Isn't there a blue tooth adapter/conversion kit out there that would allow my cell phone to access my H3's built in mic/speaker system the way my phone accesses my blue tooth ear piece?

 

My 08' Charger had all the bells and whistles in regards to the Bluetooth.....It had a Mygig system which had a hard drive, played dvds, mp3s, cds, etc, and also let you use your own phone with the bluetooth system....that is one thing dodge has over the h3.....Hopefully GM will get their butt in gear and get a new system that will work!

 

I tried to do do that with my H3, I talked to stereo install shops and cellular places until I was Blue (pun intended) in the face.
One place I talked to claimed they would be able to wire it all up but it was going to be expensive.

Does Hummer read these forums ????? ,, Hey Hummer, how bout Blue Tooth please.

Cheers
Davyo