Are the Prius and iPhone compatible?

Someone please remind me NOT to have another party at Chuck E Cheese’s. (I’m pretty sure I said this last year, but I guess no one was listening.) I Am Exhausted. But not too exhausted to talk about a recent issue that came up in the comments section.

Are the iPhone and the Prius compatible? Can they sync up? At first glance, the answer is yes. The iPhone sets up just as easily – and notably faster than – other cellular phones. The problem is in transferring stored information from the iPhone to the Prius. It’s a problem not exclusive to the iPhone either, but very frustrating for some users.

Here is a very informative and helpful post by member, Syclone, at (where else?) PriusChat.com:

Just “bit the bullet” and got an Iphone 5 days ago. The Iphone had no problem syncing up with the prius. It also pairs faster than the E815 and the Sony Ericcson T68i that I previously used. As far as downloading the phone book, the Iphone and the e815 are/were useless. The T68i, however, is my hardware download utility.

Any phone book I create gets loaded into the T68i (cost $30.00 on Ebay), and then downloaded wherever.

I downloaded the phone list into Outlook as “Phonebook” and then synced it on Itunes. The IPhone now has all 200 phone numbers, with multiple phones listed in work, home, and mobile categories wherever they were on the original phone list.

After a couple of days to figure this out, it looks like its worked out OK.

By the way – for all IPhone owners there is a great book by David Pogue, who writes a column for the NY Times. It’s called IPhone The Missing Manual. You can see it at:

http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Missing-Manua…709&sr=8-1d