mac question

Ok - so i have MacBook and i have a LG Vx8600 Cell Phone (with bluetooth). I've successfully paired the two and am now wondering what i can actually do being connected to bluetooth? Why do people connect cell phones and notebooks via bluetooth? What can i transfer??

 

Well, for example, you can send pictures you took on the cellphone onto the MacBook via Bluetooth.

 

ooh ooh! HOW!

 

Well, take a picture first with the cellphone . There should be an option to Send...and send it via Bluetooth to the MacBook. A window will pop up on the Mac with a message asking you to accept the transfer.

 

there is an option to send...but not via bluetooth. right when i press send it promps a box inwhich to put a cell phone number or email address...

 

Hmm...there should be an option to send to another Bluetooth device...I don't have your cellphone so I'm not sure where that option is.

Try viewing a picture in the Library then (or whatever folder its called that keeps photos you take), and see if there's any more options to Send...

 

Verizon has their proprietary UI and are known for crippling bluetooth. It's likely they won't let you transfer it.

 

wow lol. thats stupid -- btw i just picked up a vizio 37" LCD (new 2007 model) for $500.00 and its AWESOME..just thought i'd reccomend it. :]

 

Wow, that sucks, Eallan. Here in Canada the cellphone carriers don't cripple anything (at least, not to that scale). They just charge insane prices .

 

yea i agree its terrible how bad verizon cripples stuff. but leme just borrow your thread a minute and ask a question- if i use isync and sync my contacts will that erase the ones on my phone and put the ones on my laptop?

 

Well, the way you need to do it....

Go buy yourself a $10 1 gig micro SD card and use that instead of BT for transferring music and pics. BT is TERRIBLY slow with transfering pics. I hacked my old E815 so I could do everything over BT and it was horrendous.

also check out www.howardforums.com if you want some really good info on what you can do with that phone.

And stealth, you should be able to append the address book. But to be safe, you could always sync from the phone, then back to the phone.

 

Really? Whenever I transfer pics from my phone to the MBP it is rather quick.

 

I usually transfer my 2 MP pictures taken with my cellphone in about 5 seconds...is that fast? I don't know...

 

It does suck. Verizon has one UI that they put on all makes and models of their non-smartphones.

Luckily i'm on AT&T with my iPhone and a sim card

 

Lol, Sam, sadly you're wrong about crippling in Canada. Virgin Mobile *insert distasteful glare here* completely cripples any mildly interesting functionality their phone's might have. I've heard that some other Canadian carriers do it too. My Samsung SPH-a640 had full Bluetooth capability but noooo, Virgin Mobile must charge you an arm and a leg for their own personal PXT Messaging service. *scoff* Btw, I also second cashmonee's recommendation for howardforums.com they're a brilliant phone forum. There are also different types of Bluetooth, perhaps that is why some are experiencing different tranfer rates? They are akin to the differences between 802.11a, b, g, etc. Look through here.

 

Virgin Mobile isn't big here in Vancouver. Here its dominated by Rogers, TELUS and Fido, and from what I've seen they don't really cripple anything.

Maybe I should've been more specific, "Here in Vancouver..." .

 

Lol, you're lucky then, us Torontonian (that's a word right? :-D ) Virgin Mobilers have to put up with their rubbish, you are right in saying that the major providers, Bell, Rogers, TELUS, Fido don't cripple anything. I'm switching soon, Virgin Mobile's phone's are really...simple. They dumb everything down.