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Re: Bluetooth is doomed As a devote Mac user I have no problem with Bluetooth or and connections with. SE T610, into 12 PB, and I can surf the net, get into my car and the headset connects, get home and my phone syncs with my iMac.
Saying this, I did attempt to connect a extra Bluetooth dongle that I had to Windows XP and it was a nightmare. drivers, updates, patches, partial working software.
But as you said, it looks as though Microsoft went the way of 802.11 instead and isn't aggressively supporting BT like Apple is. | |
 marbat
join:2004-08-28
Teaneck, NJ | I don't see a single legitimate use for bluetooth. | |
| Well, I have a Bluetooth SonyEricsson T637 phone, a Bluetooth iPaq 2215 PocketPC and a Bluetooth USB dongle on my WinXP desktop. I was hoping that I can sync my calendar and contacts among the three seemlessly without plugging them in just by having them in range. Well, I don't have Bluetooth running on all the time on the phone and the PDA to save on battery life and for security, so manual intervention is required to sync them. Moreover I still have to plug those devices to charge them, so there goes the need for wireless synchronization. Finally, synchonization with the cell phone (XTND Connect) always duplicates my appointments and contacts, removes the voice-dial and removes other contact info except phone numbers and email addresses on the duplicate records on the PC and PDA.
Then every time I want to exchange contact info, I use the infrared port on the PDA and the cell phone. Most people's devices don't even have Bluetooth or don't know how to use it.
On the positive side I found this Winamp Plug-in »www.brics.dk/~barnie/wabtrc/ that works with WinampTV plug-in »www.brics.dk/~barnie/WinampTV/.
Amazingly it worked from the first try and worked pretty well. | | |
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