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| Thread ID: 59269 | 2005-06-26 11:34:00 | Bluetooth & Cellphones | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 367203 | 2005-06-26 11:34:00 | Greetings, Im just curious about bluetooth. Im guessing its sorta a 'standard', correct? So I can just grab a bluetooth adapter that is supported in Linux and my phone should be able to "see" it right? What about tonight, I was sitting in a large auditorium building with about 900 others and found about 9 phones with bluetooth when i did a quick search for nearby devices with my iMate JAM. Im not familiar with how to use it and have only sent a file to a friend or two when they're nearby me. What're bluetooths main uses on cellphones? Whats its range capacity? I guess im just curious about what I can do with it on my cellphone :D Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 367204 | 2005-06-26 11:45:00 | besides syncing phone books and calenders, you can control your mouse which is more of a novelty, txt from computer and recieve txts through computer, control your itunes so when you walk out of range itunes pauses and starts back uo when you get back in to range , transfering files,control most of your phone functions through your computer.. Disclaimer: all of these I have tried on a mac, so don't know about linux or xp, and the phone was SE t610 |
plod (107) | ||
| 367205 | 2005-06-26 14:07:00 | I use my nokia 6680 with a bluetooth headset Sony hbh-660 headset.I don't use it for transfering ringtones etc but you can use it.I heard from my father that my sister tried to set up bluetooth under windows xp and it crashed the entire computer.Setting up bluetooth is a pain with windows. I use a card reader instead.My 6680 uses rsmmc card. You can send ringtones thru bluetooth with mobiles.I think you can send documents thru bluetooth as well. |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 367206 | 2005-06-27 03:12:00 | 10m is about the range you'll get at the most out of bluetooth, though some adapters claim to do 100. This will all depend on the conditions of course. I've used bluetooth for transferring media to/from my phone. Using a full keyboard for sending text messages. Backing up contacts/messages from my phone/sim. I also used internet solely via GPRS/Bluetooth for a month or two when I was inbetween internet connections. Bluetooth is a standard. All bluetooth devices *should* be able to talk to each other. Just be wary that some phones offer different services via bluetooth than other phones. |
Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 367207 | 2005-06-27 05:41:00 | Wikipedia is your friend (en.wikipedia.org) See the bit about profiles for what you can do. -Qyiet PS Last time I tried to get BT setup under linux it was a <profanity filter> |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 367208 | 2005-06-27 05:43:00 | I use my Bluetooth connection as a Modem for upto 2Mbit/s on my T3G harrier for my laptop. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 367209 | 2005-06-27 05:57:00 | I use my Bluetooth connection as a Modem for upto 2Mbit/s on my T3G harrier for my laptop.Do you actually get 2mbps over bluetooth? I thought (from memory) BT wasn't that fast. | qyiet (6730) | ||
| 367210 | 2005-06-27 06:01:00 | I know nothing about BT and cellphones, but i do have a logitech Di-Novo BT keyboard and mouse. Pain to set up in XP, very slow to connect mouse/keyboard on start-up (you have to move the mouse for about 10 seconds before the cursor follows), some lag when typing intially and regularly it can't find my mouse on start-up and have to connect it manually. I have been told that the lag in connection is a bluetooth drawback.... not one of logitech's best products for $500+! | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 367211 | 2005-06-27 06:14:00 | ... very slow to connect mouse/keyboard on start-up (you have to move the mouse for about 10 seconds before the cursor follows), some lag when typing intially and regularly it can't find my mouse on start-up and have to connect it manually. I have been told that the lag in connection is a bluetooth drawback.... not one of logitech's best products for $500+!I use a MS BT mouse a home, it takes about 5 sec to wake up, and you normally need to click a button before it does. The keyboard is better. It's an apple one (bleh) but it doesn't seem to have any lag. The only problem is the apple layout that it uses. -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 367212 | 2005-06-27 08:22:00 | I hate to say it, but the only BT products have been either apple products or on a mac machine, They seem to have things tied pretty well as far as that is concerned, but as a mac user vi haven't tried any a windows machine. | plod (107) | ||
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