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iPhone Bluetooth Does Nothing But Calls

Ondemon — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:34:55 EDT

Perhaps the real question behind this thread is: "WHY is the Bluetooth on the iPhone SO crippled?" Scan the first page of the voluminous Legal disclaimer (Settings>About>Legal) on the iPhone and it lists the Bluetooth license as BlueMagic from Open Interface. Check out the company site, and it's obvious that the software stack supports every Bluetooth profile and protocol under the sun. So *why* did Apple disable all those capabilities? (For instance, you mentioned the Motorola S9s for wireless stereo - how come a cheap (relatively) Motorola phone support this great music feature, but the oh-so-hip iPhone doesn't??) Are they just waiting until all the official Apple BT accessories are ready for sale?

Ondemon

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Major-General — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:45:23 EDT

@Rob Daniel: Simple: no voice dialing. I won't even consider it.

@Tank: Someone bought a Zune? When? You can't keep secrets like this hidden from the world.

Major-General

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big-daddy — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:18:27 EDT

I'm looking forward to Sony Ericsson's W960, it included 2 head phone adaptors, one of which is a blue tooth set. Has all the functions a blue tooth should have, has 3.5mm jack for you to switch to a better ear phone.

Oh, and it's stereo. :P

Come on, people. Don't self-hyptonise yourself. iPhone is nice, but it's over priced with less features than we expected.

Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, and LG are much, much better choices for a cell phone. Heck, even Motorola are nice!

It all comes down to it. Why do we need a phone... and what do we need in a phone?

As far as I've seen, iPhone is pretty and nice, but it isn't pratical enough.

iPhone mentioned alot of features, but only a few are living up to the common standards...
(Quantity over quality, I guess)

big-daddy

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Mudman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:28:53 EDT

@greg3d:
Windows mobile devices don't run a version of windows XP or Vista. They're no comparison to the iPhone.

Delusional, truly!

Mudman

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mistersiegfried — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:40:59 EDT

I have a $30 Sony Ericsson Z520 which AT&T left with all its bluetooth motor skills, including file transfer of any variety. I have never purchased a single ringtone, jpg, or utility and when I do transfer said files it can use each one as a ringtone, background, or application. For $600, I think my phone had better operate how I want it to. And I'm no heathen, but Jesus was in recent times proven to be a murderer, liar, and a cheat. The iPhone likeness is startling isn't it?

mistersiegfried

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jimcord — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:40:30 EDT

Just wanted to drop a post that the iPhone is having no problems with Sony Ericsson bluetooth headsets for talking, I have also connected with my Garmin Nuvi and have complete operation through the nuvi of my phone book, calls, recent calls et cetera. I was pleasantly surprised to see it link considering Apples temporary bluetooth lockout for so many products.

jimcord

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macserv — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:13:10 EDT

The BlueTooth on the iPhone does a bit more than handle audio in calls. That's an accurate description of my Sidekick 3, which (according to Apple's BlueTooth pane in System Preferences) supports "Generic Audio", and "File Send and Receive".

The iPhone supports:

Generic Audio
Headset
irMC Sync
Phonebook

The fourth item in that list definitely makes it much more usable in the car with my Garmin Nüvi360 GPS when using its dialing capabilities for hands-free use.

macserv

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James — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:26:08 EDT

I'm pretty bummed about some of the missing features - and the "it's coming" doesn't work for me. I played with the phone in the store and noticed the bluetooth issues there.... but i bought one anyway.

I will say that the cool stuff that it DOES do, out weighs the missing things. ...so far.

disclaimer: I'm a non-fanboy: this is my first apple product that I've purchased for myself since my newton.

James

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bluetoothguy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:43:07 EDT

@StackyBotrus:
How does that make someone a "yuppie"? Just because people have developed an understanding of basic functionality that they expect from their Bluetooth Enabled device, doesn't mean they are a yuppie. I expect my car will have a horn, seatbelts, and airbags. Sure, the manufacturer had to add them on (like a profile), but it is expected that they will be there when I buy the car.

I don't really mind that you used the term "Yuppie" for iPhone users, as I think most of them are yuppies, or will be in a few years. However, I think there are other ways to justify the label.

bluetoothguy

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jamuraa — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:53:34 EDT

Hmm, my $20 (after contract) Samsung t509 can transfer photos from it's crapcam to a PC, and I can even transfer music files, once I figure out how to get them in the correct format.

jamuraa

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yg17 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:33:06 EDT

@Rob Daniel: I don't care how good the UI is. A good UI is useless on a device as crippled as the iPhone. I buy my phones for function, not form.

yg17

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nachobel — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:19:22 EDT

@StackyBotrus: Not having an iPhone myself, I can't test anything, but I'm fairly sure the people at Gizmodo are competent enough to use bluetooth. I mean, my grandma can figure it out.

nachobel

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StackyBotrus — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:41:32 EDT

the BT isnt crippled. You have to add profiles. You dont just throw BT into a phone and all 30 profiles work. Go wikipedia bluetooth or somethign you friggin yuppies.

StackyBotrus

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targatop — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:54:58 EDT

No matter how nice the interface is, this phone is crippled in so many ways that for me it would be a $599 paperweight. I use bluetooth photo printers on a regular basis with my N95, and I send a ton of MMS picture messages to my friends with a variety of phones. And with the short battery life being exposed (as I knew it would), and no replaceable battery...tell me how nice the interface is when the phone is dead and you are stuck in an airport on a delayed flight with no power jacks in sight. At least the the N95 I can carry an emergency battery.

So to sum it up from what I've read so far.
GSM signal makes all audio devices around it buzz - and loudly. No standard MMS. Sucky camera with no video (a feature my wife and I use daily). Bad battery life, and jacked up plans from AT&T. And no third party apps that work on the phone unless you are online...which might not work everywhere here in Colorado where I live. Also, edge cannot do voice and data at the same time.

I'll pass. Oh, and I followed the iPhone keynote with rapture...but the follow-through killed it.

targatop

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jannmyke — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:11:16 EDT

hahah lots of phones already has that kind of feature, and it was million years ago!

jannmyke

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Rob Daniel — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:21:56 EDT

@yg17:

I've played with Crackberries, Treos, Nokias and several Motorolas, and I stand by my comment - this thing makes them look like dinosaurs. Do yourself a favor and go play with one of these guys for a few hours and you'll see what I mean. This thing is the phone equivalent of the jump from DOS to GUI. One could have summed up the first GUI as being nothing more than a pretty interface, but they would have been missing the whole point.

Rob Daniel

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Tank — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:15:01 EDT

I won't "hope" for future updates. The phone is the phone...buy it or not.

Let the Microsoft lemmings who bought a Zune "hope" for new features.

Tank

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mathew — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:14:42 EDT

I don't think it's anything to do with AT&T. My AT&T phone does file transfer and data sync via Bluetooth.

mathew

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yg17 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:52:59 EDT

@Rob Daniel: Lightyears? It's got a pretty UI and halfway decent web browser. Other than that, it lacks many things that other phones have. The iPhone's a joke. And AT&T's even more of one.

yg17

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d_schrute — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:38:05 EDT

You people are funny! "All of these flaws can be fixed in software". Isn't that true in most phones. The fanboys complain about Windows Mobile (even though most have never used it) but the same argument holds. I am neither a fanboy nor a hater (own PCs and Macs) but get real people. This phone is currently lacking features common on a high percentage of other phones. Quit trying to justify your purchase, admit the flaws, and hope for updates. Personally, I need Active Exchange and 3G before this phone is even on the radar.

d_schrute

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The Turtle — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:30:43 EDT

Without removable storage, you can't even do the old pop-the-SD-card-and-stick-it-in-a-media-reader trick. Without file transfer and OBEX, the only way you're gonna get anything new onto (or off of) the thing is through the dock. And iTunes. Which means only content Apple approves gets on there. And I have to pay MONEY for this?

I'll keep my HTC Wizard. Nice little MiniSD slot with a 4Gb in it, full Bluetooth (printing straight to my OfficeJet is pretty slick) and a real keyboard. And it's not on AT&T.

The Turtle

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DoPeY5007 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:16:05 EDT

My Sony W810i and girlfriends W300 do the sound transfer as well, not impressed. Oh and both of them I can do anything I want with the Bluetooth (except I think play music, I never tried)

DoPeY5007

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Serantos — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:12:30 EDT

Can you share ringtones or pictures from phone to phone? That's what me and my wife do with pictures and stuff.

Serantos

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t3knomanser — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:44:33 EDT

Wait- there are phones with intelligent bluetooth routing? I actually threw my BT headset away because the routing and battery drain rendered it useless. BT file transfers are so damn slow, it was easier to get an MMC reader and just turn my phone off, pop the chip out (oh, my phone has issues if I take the chip out while it's running- that shouldn't happen) and let iPhoto rip them off there. When you've got 100 1280xwhatever photos on your phone, bluetooth is not an option.

Oh, suffice to say, it doesn't support file management. The only way to move files off my phone is by building a BT message- and that's six screens of heartache.

So... this doesn't strike me as an issue. I'm still hung up on that $600 thing. Maybe when it's $300, I'll think about it.

t3knomanser

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Aaron Martin-Colby — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:42:59 EDT

Hahaha. Man. American cell carriers suck. And now, Apple does, too. They are giving us an inferior product purely because AT&T wants to bone the consumer ever harder.

I laugh because my unlocked Nokia does all of that. I don't have to deal with anything. I also laugh because the iPhone is too much a phenomenon. People will hack it to bits to do all of the things it SHOULD have done to begin with (MP3 ringtones, anyone?). In fact, I'm somewhat surprised the locks haven't been hacked already.

C'mon hacker community! You're slacking.

Aaron Martin-Colby

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ghmlco — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:42:01 EDT

A better title for the article probably would be "iPhone Bluetooth Currently Does Nothing But Calls."

ghmlco

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boe — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:09:32 EDT

Wow - this makes news but the fact that WM6 doesn't let you make clear calls using BT doesn't?
[www.htcwiki.com]

I think the iPhone definitely needs to have something like VC via BT on the other hand, having VC to make phone calls but people can't understand what you are saying because MS did such a piss poor job with the BT stack doesn't do anything for anyone either.

MS F'ed up the BT stack in all previous versions but now they are going that extra step to making unusable for phone calls. Not sure who I should be more dissappointed in - HTC for not getting it fixed since they work with MS, MS for not ever getting something right the first, second, third...time or Apple for not making something that has full exchange activesync capabilites, voice command capabilities, and a fast network so that I can get out of this POS WM6 hell.

boe

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Twinnie — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:50:23 EDT

I'm kinda shocked how they still try to control you even after you've bought the phone. There was a big hoopla here in the UK when a couple of network operators crippled the VoIP functions on one of the Nokia handsets, everyone avoided them like the plague. I've been bluetoothing everything together for years, it's no wonder that people are starting to import phones from Europe.

Twinnie

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Rob Daniel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:41:40 EDT

@Lance Wallen:

Let's hope those essential features show up in software updates. I'm pretty confident they will - this thing has way too much potential to be limited by a lack of basic features like IM, MMS, etc. My guess is that they're hard at work as we speak (or type, as it were).

Rob Daniel

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EricBrian — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:10:05 EDT

LOL... the list of reasons why I won't buy the iPhone just keeps getting longer and longer. And, the thing is, I LOVE Apple. Oh well. They don't need me as a customer anyhow. I appears they got enough switchers.

EricBrian

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Lance Wallen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:06:36 EDT

@Rob Daniel:

The interface is slightly ahead of its time. It's one of the few innovations that, in my opinion, is a parlor trick.

Geek bling is nice, having a new and interesting interface is great, I appreciate those things greatly and it does make me yearn to hold one of those little guys. BUT... I'm picky. In todays market I expect form and function from my devices.

The iPhone is lacking too many (opinion) essential functions.

Lance Wallen

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Lance Wallen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:02:29 EDT

I love Gizmodo but this sounds like a guy tryin to explain that his pretty girlfriend really has a great personality too, you just have to get to know her...

honey, stop staring at the ceiling fan.. yeah, I know it turns really fast... yes, we can get a puppy. *sigh*

Seriously guys, the phones not that spectacular. Does it have some interesting features? Yeah. Does it break some new ground here and there? Yeah. About an inch deeper than other phones/devices out there.

Is it the most overhyped device to launch in years? Quite. The phones missing things it "needs" and people gloss over it to make it sound great.

No 3g and no A2DP support on a phone that is respectively being sold as "the internet in your pocket" and "a phone and a media device" is just silly. It's a wireless world and you can't listen to your music in stereo through the plethora of stereo bluetooth headsets out now and it's got "The internet in your pocket" yeah, my parents internet, the one that starts off with the sound of a modem screeching into the remote end to establish that "fat chicks racing ass deep in mud" speed.

"One more line with quotes around it just for fun."

Lance Wallen

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Rob Daniel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:53:24 EDT

@yg17:

I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact that this phone is light years beyond any other phone on the market even without their full feature set. This thing is more fun to play with than my Wii. Even changing settings is fun. I challenge anyone to play with this phone for a day and then go back to whatever they had before. I know that I'm a fanboy (as evidenced by the logo in my avatar), but I honestly cannot imagine how anyone could not love this thing if they gave it a chance.

Rob Daniel

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Donk In A Box — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:52:12 EDT

The reason Verizon (rightly) caught hell was because they disabled features that Moto had included on the V710. Those features were not included at all on the iPhone, so to say that the iPhone is "crippled" is misleading. Insufficiently featureful, perhaps, but that's what 2.0 versions are for...

Donk In A Box

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jmdecombe — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:49:36 EDT

Oops that would be [www.appleinsider.com]

jmdecombe

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jmdecombe — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:48:19 EDT

Just relax and check this out: [www.appleinsider.com] There's gonna be a flurry of iPhone news until the Fall, I bet. Summer of iLove!

jmdecombe

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yg17 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:42:43 EDT

If I'm paying $600 for a fucking phone, I shouldn't have to wait up to 2 years for updates to give my phone features that other phones for a fourth of the price have right out of the box.

I agree with RAZORDU30. If this was a Microsoft phone, all of you Apple fanboys would be bitching up a storm...."OH MY GOD LOL MICROSOFT CRIPPLED IT!!! MICROSOFT SUCKS!!!!1 HAHAHAHA!!!"

Although, AT&T, being the thieves they are, probably told Apple to remove tethering support so people who really need to tether would be stuck buying an additional phone or aircard with a much more expensive plan. Shame on AT&T for being greedy, and shame on Apple for giving into AT&T.

yg17

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phi — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:34:59 EDT

I think its lame that they completely took out tethering. Why would they give us the option on the "real" OSX and not let us tether to a genuine apple product.

phi

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oliverbogler — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:29:14 EDT

@EUKARYOTE
I agree - I paired the iPhone with my MacBook Pro, and then tried to dial from the Addres book on the laptop - no good. That would certainly be a nice feature to enable through software upgrades, and I would be surprised if it wasn't on the list.

@Tommo_UK
I am not sure that software upgrades are comparable to car repairs - the iPhone is pretty functional now, and works as advertised. What comes now are improvements, along with some fixes. But that is also pretty universal in the world of computers and technology - ever taken your car in for a recall that fixed something that had not become a problem for you personally yet?

oliverbogler

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razordu30 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:24:36 EDT

Not for anything, but if Microsoft poured this much marketing into a phone and it released with crippled bluetooth, Mac people would be treating it very differently.

Oh well, looks like I'll have to live with my non-crippled Windows Mobile device.

razordu30

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Omega — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:21:57 EDT

@Tommo_UK: "There are 2 years of upgrades to come - enjoy!"

Meh. Somehow, that's just not comforting to hear. It has the same effect as someone saying, "Relax, you have two full years worth of car repairs to come - enjoy!"

What ever happened to having some simple features to begin with?

Omega

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greg3d — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:16:04 EDT

@Tommo_UK: It's a proper Mac? Um, no, this is not a "proper" Mac. Just because it has a "version of OSX" does not make it a Mac computer.

I guess all Windows Mobile phones, are proper PC's because they run a "version of Windows".

Oy, try running photoshop on it, or iChat, or any otehr piece of software that a "proper Mac" can run.

Delusional, truly.

greg3d

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Eukaryote — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:04:43 EDT

I thought it was weird that the iPhone won't sync blue-tooth style with Mac OS X's address book, which a lot of phones do.

I.e., they will pop up on your screen who is calling and you send straight to voicemail or whatever on your mac.

That's just weird, I think.

Eukaryote

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Tommo_UK — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:59:37 EDT

For crying out loud, relax! Its just come out. This isn't your normal cell phone. Its a proper Mac, in a phone form factor, with all a Mac's capabilities. I would guess that when they delayed Leopard, they also had to delay a raft of functionality that had been based on Leopard APIs and technologies as-yet unfinished. When they're done, all of these issues will be addressed, including using the iPhone as a file storage device, mounting it on the desktop as an external drive - wirelessly, streaming photos, music and video to the Apple TV, and countless other wonderful things.

Now stop wetting your knickers with rage; all good things will come to those who wait. Apple practically popularised WiFi and seamless Bluetooth integration before anyone else did - the iPhone won't disappoint in this area in the end.

There are 2 years of upgrades to come - enjoy!

Tommo_UK

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deathbychichi — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:58:57 EDT

There are iPhone dissasemblies and there are iPhone disassemblies, but these guys immersed the chips in acid to remove their outer packaging so they could find out what was inside the Apple-branded and unmarked integrated circuits [www.eetimes.com]

deathbychichi

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G-stylez — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:58:55 EDT

Anyone that has the Motorola HT820 can use it via Bluetoother with iPhone. Talk on the phone while listening to your music at the same time.

[direct.motorola.com]

G-stylez

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iSmoteThee — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:42:31 EDT

Can't send files via Bluetooth? That kinda sucks. My Samsung SGH-D807 does it, and it's definitely useful. For example:

Last week, I'm at work and created an archive folder of some small, freeware applications. Gmail wouldn't send it cause it contained an executable file. I didn't have a flash drive on me, and all that was handy was a blank DVD, which I didn't want to waste for such a small amount of data. I just sent it to my phone, and when I got home, sent it to my laptop. Great use of technology that I wish the iPhone would have and really think it should have.

iSmoteThee

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Rob Daniel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:40:27 EDT

Give it some time. Jobs already announced that the company is planning two years of iPhone software updates for this first-gen model and I find it impossible to believe that the ability to pair with a mac (and pc) for use as an EDGE modem is not going to happen. This feature is built into OSX and there's no way they're going to make their own phone LESS compatible with OSX than the competition. As far as file transfer, that may be another story. Apple seems a little paranoid about third-party apps mucking up their interface. I really can't blame them - even software from reliable companies like Adobe have screwed up my Macs before and I was blaming OSX until we found the culprit.

Rob Daniel

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nachobel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:40:15 EDT

@scoobydoo: but not picture messages! (unless I'm mistaken - no MMS for the iPhone?)

nachobel

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Paradise — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:39:45 EDT

@bobvilla: What? How exactly is stripping functionality a "security feature?" That's like giving a car gas but no pedal and calling it an "accident deterrent."

Paradise

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Omega — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:34:38 EDT

And Giz forgot the fourth thing: it can't link to a BT-enabled GPS transceiver.

But it can't send a photo via BT to a BT-enabled printer? That is just pathetic! My $50 Samsung can do that!

Omega

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yg17 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:34:32 EDT

@scoobydoo: I hear the iPhone's capable of making calls too, can someone confirm this so every tech blogger in the country can write about it?

yg17

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scoobydoo — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:28:37 EDT

Wow, routing the audio to headset, speaker or phone eh? Amazing.

Whatever will Gizmodo find out next? That the iPhone supports DTMF? Or that it can send AND receive text messages?

scoobydoo

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nXt — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:21:19 EDT

Uhh yeah, routing the audio to phone/bt is nothing special. Sony Ericsson phones has always been like that. If you answer by touching the phone it goes to the phone, or if you answering by pressing your BT, it goes to your BT.

Nachobel: No iPhone to iPhone BT transfers don't work. Nothing does. BT is just for Headset.

nXt

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Slappy McSlapp — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:18:38 EDT

Appleinsider reports today that this is temporary as new apps are released this year.

Slappy McSlapp

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Wilson Rothman — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:12:03 EDT

@mechanisma22: No way to get mono music through that puppy, Apple branding or no. Sorry.

Wilson Rothman

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nachobel — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:10:47 EDT

My SE K750i does this as well. All phones don't do this? Wow. That's absolutely pathetic. Also, crippled bluetooth? I realise carriers are trying to charge you for every bit of info you get on your phone, but assuming you're able to download and save things off the 'net via WiFi with the iPhone...what's the difference?

Do phone-phone transfers work?

nachobel

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kundorb — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:09:42 EDT

You Apple-iphone-fan boys. Can't you have a purely negative post on the iphone without making a "sweet"-"quirky" excuse remark in the end ?

kundorb

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mechanisma22 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:03:58 EDT

I ordered a Apple headset, I wonder if I can get mono music to it or if its worth it.

mechanisma22

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bobvilla — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:49:57 EDT

While it pisses me off, crippling bluetooth is partly a security measure.

bobvilla

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slowpc — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:47:39 EDT

and this is why i like my SE w800... i can drag and drop if i want and using mobile agent and I leave the phone in my pocket and answer the phone or text message without touching the phone.

slowpc

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chrisjc — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:45:36 EDT

im still waiting for my the silly thing to get activated. its been 36 hours...and i'm to the point of dialing 911 just to use the thing...someone stop me!

chrisjc

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mangochutney — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:45:00 EDT

Crippled Bluetooth sucks.
Routing the call is nice, but my years old Siemens S55 does it, too. And if I'm right even my archaic Ericsson T39m has this capability.
Nothing really special.

mangochutney