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Originally Posted by agarbati
From what a customer rep at Verizon told me they have been disabling bluetooth on new phones because of a high profile incident with Paris Hilton where some guys hacked into her address book. He said that until that is resolved they are not offering bluetooth.
Haven't checked into the veracity of this so take it FWIW.
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That's not exactly true. Paris Hilton's phone numbers that she calls were exposed by someone that hacked T-Mobile and not her phone.
Someone has probably already answered the original question but "crippled Bluetooth" refers to carriers who want you to transfer things like pictures from your phone through their service and not Bluetooth. This way they make more money on the lucrative data charges. So they install a custom firmware that doesn't allow file transfers to or from the phone. This shouldn't affect the ability of the phone to pair with the car. I wouldn't think that the ability to push the phonebook to the car would be affected by this either but I'm not absolutely sure.