Verizon's Plan for a Bluetooth Day
I am at my desk with my new Verizon phone. I need to add a phone number to my phone. I key in the contact on my computer which in turn syncs to the phone using BT. I get into my car, and have the ability to call the new contact by scrolling through the address list using a steering wheel button.
The contact calls me, his/her caller ID comes up on the dashboard screen, music is muted, I take the call. Its a server down emergency. I pull over and park the car, turn off the engine. BT unpairs with the phone. I open up my laptop the phone pairs with the laptop to give me a broadband DUN connection. I connect to the internet, take care of business and am back on the road ready to take or place calls. I never even looked at the phone through al...
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The contact calls me, his/her caller ID comes up on the dashboard screen, music is muted, I take the call. Its a server down emergency. I pull over and park the car, turn off the engine. BT unpairs with the phone. I open up my laptop the phone pairs with the laptop to give me a broadband DUN connection. I connect to the internet, take care of business and am back on the road ready to take or place calls. I never even looked at the phone through al...
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Anxiovert said:
☹️ A boy can dream, can't he? 😢
Actually, that's a variant of a post made about 20 months ago, when the V710 was released. Back then none of those things were possible on Verizon phones.
Today all of those tasks can be done on most carriers in Orange, in Europe. Maybe 2/3 can be done on Cingular phones and only about 1/2 on Verizon phones.
So you might say we are gaining on connectivity, but only at half the pace of the competition.
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Thanks a lot, now I have to go get some paper towel to clean up the drool from my keyboard...
What a wonderful world that would be.
What a wonderful world that would be.
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Everything is this original post is possible today with an unhacked Verizon phone. It only took 3 years of ranting to get it.
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If only it were that seemless. Took me a friggin half hour to get my friend's Nokia to transfer images/videos over BT to his laptop. Ya know what would have been faster? Memory card reader, pix messaging, data cable... but no, we wanted to try BT. Bah!
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The key is to setup the BT profile to automatically accept incoming security.
I play with alot of the new technology and it is my observation that BT still needs a good bit more R&D before it is as completely seemless as what we would like.
I play with alot of the new technology and it is my observation that BT still needs a good bit more R&D before it is as completely seemless as what we would like.
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adilus said:
I play with alot of the new technology and it is my observation that BT still needs a good bit more R&D before it is as completely seemless as what we would like.
The biggest problem facing the consumer from Verizon now is standardization so the phones pair with other devices. Like there are only 2 handsets that will actually allow printing (BIP) pictures, most of the music phones don't support stereo.
Buying a new car & Verizon cellphone pair is also becoming unweildy. Take a look at this Verizon page. There are about 50 compatibility charts you must examine to see which phones work with specific cars and features. If you want ALL of the BT features that your new car can work with, it ...
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I have a LG env and an Infiniti M45 and I can do all those things you have talked about except the evdo DUN... but BT is fairly capped so you wouldn't want to connect to broadband DUN via BT. Thats like 800 HP in a lawnmower.
But everything else is completely doable with the LG Env... its just a matter of knowing how to set everything up.
But everything else is completely doable with the LG Env... its just a matter of knowing how to set everything up.
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