Mercedes Bluetooth HFP Cradle

Mercedes Bluetooth HFP Cradle: This is the genuine Mercedes Bluetooth HFP cradle for cars the exchangeable cradle phone system.

The Mercedes Bluetooth HFP phone cradle connects to the phone cradle connector which is under the cover normally in the centre glovebox, if your car has phone pre-wiring. It is the most cost-effective Mercedes Bluetooth cradle.

The Bluetooth HFP cradle then connects via Bluetooth to your phone and you can make calls via the steering wheel controls and COMAND if you have it on your car.

With later phones this Bluetooth cradle will download the phonebook also.

Please note that we are not sure that this will download the phonebook with the new 3G iPhone.

Mercedes Benz have tested the HFP cradle with the following phones and it works for phone calls and phonebook download, and in most cases call lists: -


Apple iPhone with V1.x or V2.2 or later software
Apple iPhone 3G with V2.2 or later software
Nokia 2630, 3109C, 3120 Classic, 5300, 5310, 5610, N70
Nokia 6111, 6131, 6600 Slide, 7500 Prism, 8600 Luna
Sony Ericsson W350i, W380i, W550i, W580i, W660i, W610i, W850i, W880i, W890i, W910i
Sony Ericsson K610i, K660i, T700, W902
Motorola Pebl U6, Motokrzr K3, ROKR E8
Samsung SGH-D900i
Blackberry 8700V, 8700G, 8707V, 8800, 8300 Curve, 8100, 8310, 8220 Pearl, 9000 Bold
Benq-Siemens EF81
HTC Touch P3450

We, and our customers, have also extensively tested this cradle with: -

HTC Tytn / HTC Hermes / Vodafone Qtek V1605 / 02 XDA / Orange SPV M3100
HTC Tytn II
Blackberry 8320
Motorola V8
Nokia 5200, 6021, 6300, 6500 Slide, 6500 Classic
Nokia N73 with latest software
Samsung SGH-F490, SGH-U900
Sony Ericcson P1i
Vodafone v1415
Blackberry Pearl

We know that this will function for phone calls, but provide no phonebook download for: -
Nokia N and E series (except the N73)
Other Nokia phones with the S60 or S80 operating systems including 3250, 5500 Sport, 5700 XpressMusic, and 6290, 6220 Classic, 3230, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, 7710, 7650, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD, 9300i, and 9500 Communicator
- we suggest you use the ViseeO MBU-2000 for these phones as you can manually send the phonebook to the MBU-2000, or the Mercedes SAP if you are not on the '3' network or USA/Canada networks.

We know this will NOT work at all with
Nokia 6310i

The Mercedes Bluetooth HFP cradle will not work in cars with the old CD based COMAND system, or Audio-30, Audio-30-APS, Audio 10-CD or Audio-10 Casette because you get echo on the system. As it uses your phone's aerial, it should not be used in cars with heat reflective glass as that blocks the phone signal (you need the Bluetooth SAP cradle, or a ViseoO plus a 6310i cradle, depending on which phone you have and whether you have heat reflective glass). The HFP cradle does not support sending/receving SMS messages via COMAND.

We recommend it for use in :-
Facelifted W203 C class and W209 CLK class (from mid 2004 onward)
Current A/B/E/CLS/ML/GL/R class
Last model S/CL with COMAND APS system where the map DVD goes in the boot (i.e from MY2004 (built Sept 2003) onward).
SL with COMAND APS (Map DVD goes in the boot) or Audio-20 CD (i.e from MY2005 (build July 2004) onward).
G with COMAND APS system where the map DVD covers all of Europe or Audio-20 CD(i.e from MY2008 (build April 2007) onward).
Latest VITO with COMAND APS system where the map DVD covers all of Europe.
Current SLK

This cradle is NOT approved for USA or Canada - please see our MHI cradle or ViseeO MBU2000 for USA/Canada.

Mercedes part number: B6 787 5877. Mercedes Retail price £270