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How do YOU use Bluetooth?

post #1 of 13
1/21/04 at 11:13pm
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Maybe I just love posting around here, but I'm interested in knowing what uses for Bluetooth people have found so far. Sure, you can get a mouse and maybe even a keyboard, but where does one go from there? PDAs? Phones? Speakers? Monitors? (Probably not, but hey, some people find weird stuff).

Speak up!
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post #2 of 13
1/22/04 at 12:48am
Make that a resounding NO on the mouse. I'm not even making it that far.

My original plan was to use the onboard Bluetooth with a Bluetooth mouse to spare myself the mouse cord. So far, that has been an unmitigated disaster. As you can tell from my sig, I am rather unhappy with the Microsoft product, enough so that I have written an 8-page letter of complaint to my State Attorney General for him to use as evidence in his appeal of the antitrust case against Microsoft. And I haven't had much luck with the Logitech MX900 either, I am probably going to return it and look for a corded mouse in the near future. Ok, so I'm a bit more demanding than the average user, but what's available on the market is positively pathetic.

Which leaves me not using my Bluetooth feature of my laptop at all at the moment, although someday I imagine using it to synchronize with a cell phone / PDA. Like maybe in a couple years when the technology is actually useable.

-phubar
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post #3 of 13
1/22/04 at 12:52am

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My KVM switch is bluetooth enabled but my laptop does not see it. To bad; because that would be really cool if the KVM picked up the laptop whenever it is near by and you could control it from your desktop keyboard, display, and mouse. Of course I can do that through my wireless network and remote desktop, but hey it would be cool.

Dave
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post #4 of 13
1/22/04 at 1:35am
Wow. That seems AWFULLY drastic phubar... I mean - there must be a way to remove drivers at a low level... Deleting files - registry entrys - etc... Im sure youd have to know exactly what files would need to be removed and whatnot. Or is it something even stranger than that?

At any rate - I opted not to get bluetooth, but if i had, the mouse would have been the reason... Guess I made the right decision.

And i really dont think a display would be able to go through bluetooth... way too much information. And i think bluetooth only has like a 6 foot range...
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post #5 of 13
1/22/04 at 4:45am
It would be dumb using bluetooth for a display because the monitor will never change position relative to the laptop, so there's no reason not to have a cord going from the laptop to it.
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post #6 of 13
1/22/04 at 7:32am
So far only the mouse, a Logitech MX900. I don't really need the Logitech config software, so the Mouse runs fine for me. I'm thinkining of getting a PDA or maybe a BT enabled printer. I have to admit though my main reason for getting BT is I'm a tech junkie.
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post #7 of 13
1/22/04 at 9:14am
I use the built in blue tooth on my 8890V all the time with my Nokia 6600..
it works perfect all the time
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post #8 of 13
1/22/04 at 9:17am
to tezz: do you have any problem with infrared on nokia 6600 ?
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post #9 of 13
1/22/04 at 9:57am
I didn't get blue tooth with my 4780 because I read you couldn't use the wireless (b not g) with the blue tooth (wanted it for a mouse too)

Does anyone know if you can use a external wifi card with an external blue tooth?
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post #10 of 13
1/22/04 at 11:21am
I use the bluetooth on my 8890(?) don't know the letter that comes after it with my Ipaq 4355 pocketpc which also has bluetooth. I wirelessly sync all my appt's and contacts and send music files back and forth between the two devices. It amazes the Sh@# out of people
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post #11 of 13
1/22/04 at 11:54am

Ipaq 5555

I love using my Ipaq 5555 to surf the internet while in a meeting by using the bluetooth active sync on Or10n (my sager).
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post #12 of 13
1/22/04 at 1:29pm
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My KVM switch is bluetooth enabled but my laptop does not see it.
Too bad, indeed. That would be sweet. Maybe it's because of the monitor? I figured a wireless display would be a stretch, anyway.

It would be sweet to have a Bluetooth MP3 player. Like, a 20gb version, I mean.
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post #13 of 13
1/22/04 at 1:32pm
Geez i didnt even know people used bluetooth
i thought it was going the way of the laser disk
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