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If you make your phone non-discoverable then they won't be able to send you their BT messages/spam.

If you want to receive the full message (as a Bus Card) then you would have to accept the bluejack - I'd guess that the initial message would say something like "Special BT offer from MacDonalds - do you want to receive it?" or similar.

Email spam was outlawed as it has a cost on the networks and the recipients (especially those use 0845 dialups) whereas mailbox spam through your letterbox has not been outlawed and I doubt they could outlaw BT spam on the same basis as it incurs no third party cost.

However, unless they reduce the amount of power that BT takes when it's switched on, users will disable BT until they actually need it - has anyone else noticed how BT kills the P900 battery!!

Steve
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Posted: 2003-12-13 00:41:08
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Yes, as I said in an earlier post, at the moment you can always turn BT off. More advanced BT systems might let you select which BT devices to 'listen' to and which ones not to.

The question is, if mobile companies stand to gain financially from BT spamming through licensing etc. How long will it be before they start implementing 'always on, listening to all BT' in their phones?

Until fairly recently, colour displays were a no-no in mobiles due to the drain on the then primative batteries. As battery and BT technologies progress, it's certainly feasible that 'always on' BT could be done.


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Posted: 2003-12-13 02:33:09
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In some nokia with bt you can´t turn the bt off.
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Posted: 2003-12-13 02:44:17
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There you go! It's happening already lol
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Posted: 2003-12-13 02:57:22
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Well out of interest about how you said its feasable that BT always on could be done soon - at the moment I always leave BT on in my T610 just so my pc can always access my phone and I haven't noticed the battery running out quickly however I have a deskstand for my T610 so I just put it on there whenever I'm at home and leave it on there over night. But during the daytime I haven't seen my battery noticably drain quicker to when I didn't have BT on all the time.

Plus in relation to this topic, I have my BT on all the time and I have tried now and again to bluejack and have only really been successful once but apart from that no one has ever tried to send me a prank message. So I doubt that BT phones are taking off that much - or people are leaving it on because when I try to search for BT devices in my town centre I very varely find anyone. My point being would companies at this point in time take BT as a feasable way to market, seeing as the majority of the people (where I live) either don't have BT enabled phones or just leave it switched off and have no use for it.
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Posted: 2003-12-13 10:46:26
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This topic is getting really interesting!

First time I read it I was in a coffee shop here in Oslo, Thats where I replide to it as well actually, but it really got me thinking. (I happens I do that... )
Anyway, I did a sarch whilst sitting there and found 5 different items. I picked out one of them and sent a contact saying "Was your coffee nice?" It beeped behind the counter! It was the managers phone.
When I saw him pick up his phone with a great big grin on his face I couldn't help myself and went over to him.
I've been there heaps of times before so we sort of know each other and, with my head full of these adds I asked him what he thought of an idea like this.
He actually told me he'd done adds in his shop!
Standing behind his counter he'd sent off a message saying "50% off your next coffee!" several times and it had worked ever time! Someone in the shop had allways come up and asked if this was true.

I got a cupper for free after that.
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Posted: 2003-12-14 08:07:51
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@tranquil, I like that story, because its a form of BT advertising, but in a nice honest way.
IE; the advertising sender was obvious.

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Posted: 2003-12-14 08:22:56
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I wouldn't have a problem with this personaly, aslong as it stayed within the cafe. Then people could be warned by a sign on the door stating that the cafe sends out bluetooth messages. But I think would be wrong if someone, within the 10 metres outside the shop is trying to find a mates phone and then as a result gets a load of bluetooth messages from this cafe.
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Posted: 2003-12-14 10:32:24
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I agree entirely, if people are told that they might recieve BT messages upon entering the shop, then they have the choice to not enter the shop, if you know what I mean

It could be a great way to run competitions too! 'One person per hour will be picked at random and notified via BT that they have won a free coffee'. Even I wouldn't mind getting a message like that
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Posted: 2003-12-14 15:09:19
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I suppose as always thought even though there might be good uses for bluetooth such as the cafe example but what if it was to become massly used. I mean whats to stop websites hiring people and sending them out with a laptop and a bluetooth dongle and sending out messages to people passing by advertisng some dodgy adult website.
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Posted: 2003-12-14 19:01:25
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