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@WildCard# regarding Bluetooths range, we all know how far it's supposed to be - but how far is it in use? My phone has to be pretty close to my dongle to make it next to bloody useless ... Anyone else feel the same?
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Posted: 2004-01-08 00:15:52
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depends if it is class 1, 2 or 3 BT
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Posted: 2004-01-08 02:47:45
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it has to be at least 10meters i know that for sure.
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Posted: 2004-01-08 03:00:39
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Normal devices such as mobile phones are ten metres. The more specific tools such as bluetooth routers and now bluetooth usb sticks are at least 100M compatible.
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Posted: 2004-01-08 03:02:53
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Yep ... 100 metres sounds good! Is that not down to both devices being compatible though.
Like a BT 10 metre dongle won't talk to a BT 100 metre handset, I guess it would work the other way round though ????
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Posted: 2004-01-08 12:07:37
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Yes i think thats right. Its called reverse compatibility i believe...where old technology cannot handle newer technology/versions...but new technology can handle older ones/less powerfull ones in this case.
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Posted: 2004-01-08 12:19:10
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Quote:i Which band is needed for a mobile to work in America and Canada and Chile?
Incorrect question, unless you are specifically referring to tri-band mobiles, there is more than one band in use in America and Canada.
I've generally found mobile phone store staff to be be fairly useless, I'm not going to say they all are as you do sometimes get individuals which are obviously interested in the mobiles themselves which can be very helpful. I appreciate you can't know about every mobile and every tariff, but what I would rather is if the salesperson admitted they didn't know rather than just make up nonsense on the spot, I've been in CPW stores and heard wrong, and totally misleading advice been given to customers, but I don't feel it's my place to correct them. You need tariff knowledge as well as mobile phone knowledge which I've seen lacking a lot of the time, most sales staff think that by looking up the tariff table they can find everything there, which is not the case, especially with features such as 0800 on OVP Virgin and similar. I did apply to CPW as a summer job, and I didn't even get to the interview, despite having an AI&CS degree (which included mobile phone technologies) and good experience of the current networks, tariffs and phones (read lots of uk.t.m!) Whenever I go to a shop to buy something I don't expect any useful advice from sales staff, I do the research first and if I get a useful sales person that's a bonus.
John
[ This Message was edited by: johnmcl7 on 2004-01-08 13:10 ]
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Posted: 2004-01-08 14:02:21
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Took my fone (t610) back to cpw today as it kept crashing. I guessed it was the fw so i asked if the new fone would av latest fw, yet again didn't av a clue
,then he says: i don't really know,u know more than me.
Hang on a min ur the 1 selling the bloody things, but then i suppose thats all the training they get. Sell sell sell
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Posted: 2004-01-10 17:25:00
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On 2004-01-08 14:02:21, johnmcl7 wrote:
Quote:i Which band is needed for a mobile to work in America and Canada and Chile?
Incorrect question, unless you are specifically referring to tri-band mobiles, there is more than one band in use in America and Canada.
[ This Message was edited by: johnmcl7 on 2004-01-08 13:10 ]
Yea, um yeah, thats what I meant. Really I should have written it properly. Do you know which bands are used in america 900, 1800? Haven't really got a clue
Also, the P900 is Quad Band. What the hell is Quad Band? Does that mean I can use it on Mars or something. Which would be useful if I had to go and visit Nokia Rokia.
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Posted: 2004-01-10 17:40:37
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Also, the P900 is Quad Band.
No it's not. It's Tri-Band.
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Posted: 2004-01-10 17:57:12
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