Displaying contacts on WM versus Displaying contacts on CAR HandsFree - General Topics

Once upon a time, there was an MS customer who opened case with MS Premier Support regarding an issue with Contacts not being sent to the Car built-in BT HandsFree in the same format as they are displayed on the WM device.
It turned out that this is due to the BThAGPhonebook.dll which sends the name of the contact always in the form "FirstName MiddleName Lastname Suffix".
In opposite the contacts stored in MS outlook and synchronized to Pocket Contacts are displayed and sorted by FileAs field. Pretty often the customer has to use the Company attribute to differ the contacts of different people of the same name, but the company string is never sent to the HandsFree Contact list.
Because there is not exactly defined in the GSM AT command specification how the contact sent to the HF should look like and no one except this Customer never complained about it, it wasn’t accepted by MSPS as a bug but a feature request has been created.
The fact that the dialed numbers, missed and received calls is sent to the HF in the format of FileAs field, didn't matter to them.
For the customer it was very hard to accept that this is not a bug but a feature, he actually never admitted that, I wish there would be an alternative end of this story, but it is not, at least not yet.
What is your opinion?
1. It’s a bug which should be immediately fixed.
2. It’s a feature you would like to see in the future version of WM.
3. You don’t care.

strange
29 readers so far and only 2 of them voted?
Please if you have another opinion, feel free to send it here.

really sad ratio
61readers : 2voters
tell me, what is wrong?
there is nobody using the car built-in bluetooth Handsfree?

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matthewslaney said:
I have a HTC Whitestone/VX6975/Imagio. However, the issue I have I believe is simply a Windows Mobile 6.5 issue, not a device specific one.
I have a number of contacts for which there is no first or last name. The Company is the only name field filled in because it is a generic number for a business. Can anyone please tell me how to make 6.5 treat these like regular contacts? This is my third WM device and in previous version, as well as in Outlook, I've not had any problems. However with 6.5 I have to perform the very cumbersome task of a company search or leaving my contacts set to View By / Company. Neither of these are very useful options to me, and I still can't access the contacts in the regular dialer. Is there really no way to revert to treating the company as a 3rd name field as it was in previous WM versions?
Thanks,
Matthew
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You could simply put the name of the company as the first name on the contact...

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