bluetooth and cell phone

so i just connected my cell phone to my computer via the bluetooth. My question is there anything I can do/benefit from by doing this? Im just curious. Got the computer yesterday and was just curious. Thanks

 

i tried sending a basic photo to the phone, but it didnt seem to work

 

You can easily synchronize your cell phone with your Office Outlook calendar, task and address book, share music with Windows Media Player, and even use your mobile phone as a USB/Bluetooth/Infrared storage device.

 

interesting.. im not having any luck communicating with the phone, anytime i try to talk to it, i get some error message saying "unable to send data argument was supplied"

 

What phone is it? My older Nokia Bluetooth enabled phone (6230) works just fine.

 

You can control media player, mouse, powerpoint presentations, sync information, use the phone as a modem, link with the phone in a Personal Area Network and surf the net via your data account, .....

 

Verizon service, LG VX8300

 

If you have a Verizon bluetooth phone, you're SOL when it comes to bluetooth. Verizon crippled most of their bluetooth phone to the point where it only works with bluetooth headsets and won't do anything else. Of course, I haven't been keeping up with the tech in phones in quite some time so this could've changed in the last 6 months.

 

You're right. Verizon has limited Bluetooth capabilities where they limit their bluetooth functions to allow connections, but only transfer data to and from a headset. So no file sharing. AT&T (cingular) has unrestricted bluetooth functionality so you can send files, etc via bluetooth.

 

so a cingular cu500 should be able to send the files/pics etc using bluetooth?

 

so im basically out of luck, oh well

 

You also have to make sure your phone has OBX (Bluetooth File Transfer) enabled. Most phones disable it by default for security reasons... Check you manual about it

 

Absolutely. AT&T doesn't cripple bluetooth, or any phone function in general. Almost every phone since the original V3 RAZR should have OBEX (short for OBject EXchange), the bluetooth extension (called a profile) that allows wireless file transfers. I do it all the time (and not just because I work for AT&T).

The trick is getting the devices paired, after that it's easier than email.

 

The best thing really is sending an MP3 to your phone to use as a ringtone, thats the only reason i bought a bluetooth module.

 

ditto! you can also connect to other computers, but its really slow transfer in my opinion.