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Bluetooth between my ipaq 5450, my phone, and my headset sometimes do not play nice. The ipaq will knock the headset off the phone when I bluetooth a number from the ipaq to the phone.

I could never get my ipaq to sync with my PC via bluetooth.

All in all, bluetooth should be renamed Blewtooth, or Blowtooth, 'cause it blows. I gave up on the ipaq, for many reasons, but the bluetooth problems were the last straw.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/
My wife's Acura TL has Bluetooth HandsFree functionality, which works flawlessly with her phone. It has even worked when her phone was in the trunk.

I hardly think Bluetooth sucks. Obviously it's not perfect, but as a PC guy you should be used to things not working as expected.
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My primary use of BT is in getting my PDA on the internet via my cell phone, since the PDA offers no other means of connecting to any cell phones outside of bluetooth. I don't do the sync thing so much with my laptop; when I did (had to RMA the laptop so I lost everything) I found BT syncing was extraordinarily slow compared to using a USB cable so why bother? With Wifi, I've not had any need to use my cell phone as a BT modem very often with the laptop. I've not seen many BT headsets that weren't disposible and/or affordable so I haven't gone that route yet.

It seems to me that BT would replace infared, and would be a better way for PDAs to send contacts, files, etc. to other equipped PDAs. But that's just based on my limited use of it.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/
Although Apple has BT standard in its PowerBooks - they don't do a very good job of supporting its implementation. I just spent 5 hours figuring out how to use my Plantronics BT headset with my 12" G4. Most of that time was wasted because Apple's System update doesn't update BT at all. You have to manually download and install BT 1.5 (dunno why it isn't done by the update service). Then there is the firmware update to BT you can only apply after BT 1.5 is installed. There is no clear, lucid documentation or explanation of this. Hell, there isn't even a way to figure out what versions of BT you have installed (I tried the about this Mac menu...).

I live in Japan, and have been hankering to get a BT phone to sync with my Mac. Unfortunately, the offerings are pretty slim here - believe it or not. I can only find 1 current model in Docomo's and Au's current line-up (#1 and #2 providers here). Vodaphone Japan has several, but this provider's signal is so weak I'm not sure it would be a smart move.

So, though I hope for BT, the implementation has been kludgy at best from my perspective. Blooming is a term that is not appropriate as yet.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/
I think my problem was that I was trying to use Blowtooth features that were not necessarily supported by every implementation of Blowtooth. I have a feeling that, say, PDA syncing is not a standard feature, thus my problems with it.

Anyway, to me saying it works good on a Mac is as useful as saying that it works good on an Amiga. I'm not ever going to use either.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/
I have been using a BT headset for the past three years, am presently very happy with my SE HBH660. My carkit is BT and so not only does my phone connect when I am driving so does my partners if she uses the car.

Have a Clie TH55 (the European one with both BT & WiFI) which connects well with my phone & laptop with no problems.

This post is made with my BT keyboard and mouse along with my Vaio laptop.

Oh and I transfer handwriten notes to my computer with BT thanks to the fact that I use an Anoto based pen.

When I firsted starting using BT the battery did not last very long but over time it has improved just at it did with my mobile. The great feature is that I can easily control what I connect to and what they are able to do in terms of profile, something not easily done by its evil twin WiFi.

Now the you guys are starting to see the light hopefully we will see an ever increasing number of devices using BT and the faster adoption of the 2.0 standards. With those you are going to see headsets that can be paired with more than one device at a time and so use the headset for both laptop and phone at the same time!
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im a bit worryed about intels wusb system (wireless usb). still, the one strong thing about bluetooth is that its device to device centric from the start. wusb on the other hand seems to be primarily centerd around the pc...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/16/switched-on-the-blossoming-of-bluetooth/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM