Actually, this morning as I was leaving the dealership with our RX I called my wife via the car’s Bluetooth. She wanted me to pick up lunch. Anyway, it does not show “phone use” as one of the ‘dings” so I believe that answers your question. For anyone else following this discussion, bear in mind it shows 5 different metrics, Acceleration, braking, cornering, speeding and phone use. It grades each on a scale from poor to great (5 point scale). Even on those times it erroneously nicked me for phone use, it only took a couple of points off that one metric, making my score average for the “phone use” metric but still a “great” score on the other 4 metrics. I did get dinged two points for Braking on my way to the dealer this morning, and I might have lost a point to Speeding in there somewhere...

 

Thanks for the additional information. At least, I shouldn't have to worry about answering the phone.

I live in an area that is, to say the least, technologically challenged. When I drive into a valley, I'm likely to lose the cell phone signal. If I'm streaming Tune-In when that happens, I'll lose the signal and I need to refresh it to get it restarted. I'm guessing that, when I got dinged, it was because I had lost the cell signal and needed to re-fresh the app.

 

That sounds logical. You "touched" the phone and the screen would have come on. It sounds like as long as everything is performed through the vehicle's systems it won't penalize you for "phone use."