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 Thursday, February 03, 2005
Geeking out on Bluetooth
Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:40:45 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) ( )

Now that I appear to have a cell phone that actually works, I have been enjoying a very cool feature.

My phone is Bluetooth-enabled. Bluetooth is a short-range radio protocol that allows devices to communicate with each other. It basically creates a "personal area network" by which your various devices (phone, PDA, laptop, earphones, microphone, whatever) can talk to each other.

Both my laptop and PDA are also Bluetooth enabled, so they can talk to my phone. My phone can act as a modem. Thus, as long as I have cell coverage, I can "dial out" from my PDA or laptop through my cell phone. Just like that I'm on the Internet. Very cool!

It isn't super fast, but it isn't super slow either. For checking email it is totally acceptable, and it even works for some web browsing (as long as there aren't a lot of images on the pages).

Just one step closer to the cyberpunk future.

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Friday, February 04, 2005 3:46:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
The cool thing is that you can come at that from another direction too - I got a smart phone (UK equiv of the infamous Scoble Phone) - now I can use my phone as a PDA, check emails on it... all I need is a little bluetooth keyboard and I'm away :-)

The more stuff that interops like this the cooler it gets - until someone writes a smart device bluetooth transmitable virus, that is.
Tim Ensor
Friday, February 04, 2005 8:28:19 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Resistance is futile
dracut
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:48:51 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I have got a smart phone too and it's great. wouldn't it be great to use bluetooth as a remote starter for the car, or an automatic car key? and once it's connect to the car system, why not changing the system of Car Alarms, so instead of sounding the horn outside on the street, it should put on the sound on smartphone.
Shrage H Smilowitz | microdivision@hotmail.com
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