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I've only had my T68 just over a week, so am very new to all this bluetooth stuff, but when the guy was giving me the "sell job" in the shop (CPWH), he said "Yeh, when my mate who has a T68 comes into range I can steal stuff from his phone without him knowing....like his background". Is he talking crap?
Are there any other uses for bluetooth apart from:
sending contacts/backgrounds
playing 2 player games
having a posey hands free with no leads but which you need a bank loan to buy in the first place!
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Posted: 2002-05-02 15:30:00
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He can only steal his background if both phones have bluetooth switched on and the his phone is set to send the background.
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Posted: 2002-05-02 15:36:00
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Thanks, I thought so.
He made it sound like he would pick up his mate's phone like some homing device and be able to get what he liked off it!
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Posted: 2002-05-02 15:55:00
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To thefury:
Hi,
Yes, of course bluetooth has many other uses
Among them there are my favourite ones:
- you can use your mobile as a GPRS modem, which will provide a decent Internet connection to your Palm, PocketPC or notebook
- ... and last but not least, by plugging a Bluetooth USB adapter on your PC you can synchronize your Outlook calendar and contacts with your t68m/t68i.
This last tip is quite interesting when you consider that this way, your mobile phone can be used as a perfectly valuable substitute to a more expensive, heavy PocketPC.
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Posted: 2002-05-07 18:17:00
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The blue flashing light looks cool in the dark
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Posted: 2002-05-07 20:52:00
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hmm i guess for some time only ... when you are sleeping the blue led keeps on flashing ... it will become irritating...
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Posted: 2002-05-08 07:58:00
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Hi Karim,
what you say is true, however GPRS in England is quite expensive at the moment!!
I think I'll stick to using it for important things like two player games!
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Posted: 2002-05-09 17:53:00
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On 2002-05-07 20:52, arroyootje wrote:
The blue flashing light looks cool in the dark
heehee.. soo true
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Posted: 2002-05-21 09:30:00
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T68 will not talk to any device unless:
a) you create pairing (this means that you trust the paired device)
b) you initiate the communication
These scary stories are the same bull***it like the GSM SIM card cloning. It is possible but if you look at the conditions needed to clone a SIM card, you can just forget about it all and sleep in peace
Same with Bluetooth security.
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Posted: 2002-05-21 10:52:00
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On 2002-05-09 17:53, thefury wrote:
Hi Karim,
what you say is true, however GPRS in England is quite expensive at the moment!!
I think I'll stick to using it for important things like two player games!
Don't think it's that expensive - in fact it works out cheaper for me! Plus it's always on so you can keep up with Esato all day and only pay for the data you send and recieve. Suppose it depends on how much you use it but WAP at 10p/minute is a rip off in my opinion.
Get broadband as well and you'll never leave Esato!
Ed
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Posted: 2002-05-29 21:03:00
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