Motorola V600
What's the big deal about Bluetooth?
How important is bluetooth, in internet terms will a bluetooth enabled phone be a good choice compared to a non enabled bluetooth phone?
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In internet terms it is not important at all.
Bluetooth basically saves you having to have cables around, so its main impact is for a close range cableless environment. By itself it is not able to connect to the internet, but can connect to a device that in turn can do this.
For me "internet terms" means broadband and high speeds for traffic, something that Bluetooth is really not about. If the device you are connecting to has broadband speeds in its internet connection, it is still going to get chocked in the Bluetooth connection to your phone, which then becomes the bottleneck.
Normally Bluetooth is used the other way around. You have a device which does not have internet connection, which wants to use your phone to set that up. ...
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Bluetooth basically saves you having to have cables around, so its main impact is for a close range cableless environment. By itself it is not able to connect to the internet, but can connect to a device that in turn can do this.
For me "internet terms" means broadband and high speeds for traffic, something that Bluetooth is really not about. If the device you are connecting to has broadband speeds in its internet connection, it is still going to get chocked in the Bluetooth connection to your phone, which then becomes the bottleneck.
Normally Bluetooth is used the other way around. You have a device which does not have internet connection, which wants to use your phone to set that up. ...
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Thank you very much, your reply was very informative. I was toying around the idea of getting the v300 ( t mobil) or possibly waiting for the v600 and it seems the major difference was that v600 has bluetooth.
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in my opinion, bluetooth is on the way out. this was just a precursor to WUSB (Wireless USB). WUSB is going to be faster and easier to integrate with most OS platforms since USB is an established standard. So most of the bluetooth phones will pretty much become obsolete before we know it.
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People have been talking about Bluetooth's demise for a long time. It's just now gaining critical mass with automobile manufacturers. They're including it as part of their hands-free feature set. I just picked up an Acura TL - and that's why I'm anxious for TMobile to release their V600. Any day, hopefully. So, while wireless USB may come along, you'll continue to see Bluetooth for several years. Updates will improve security. Expect wireless firewire to become popular too.
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All you need to do is buy an unlocked V600 and sign up with TMobile. There are companies on the web (look for them) offering V600's with Tmobile. These companies unlock the phone and sign you up with TMobile. It's no big deal.
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Wolf3d wrote:
>in my opinion, bluetooth is on the way out.
I doubt this. Wireless technologies all have their different application areas. For small devices that do not require expensive high bandwidth technologies, Bluetooth is solution. If you see how much phone manufacturers invest in BT, I really doubt this is on the way out.
Your statement is equally invalid as one that would say WUSB is not going to make it because WLAN is so much better. It's a different application area with different requirements to start with.
BR,
X.
>in my opinion, bluetooth is on the way out.
I doubt this. Wireless technologies all have their different application areas. For small devices that do not require expensive high bandwidth technologies, Bluetooth is solution. If you see how much phone manufacturers invest in BT, I really doubt this is on the way out.
Your statement is equally invalid as one that would say WUSB is not going to make it because WLAN is so much better. It's a different application area with different requirements to start with.
BR,
X.
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