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Motorola Timeport 270c Review
ioman1 writes: "Designtechnica does a review of Motorola's first ever cell phone to use the Bluetooth technology. "With a variety of features including speakerphone, voice recognition, and voice activation, the Timeport 270c pretty much allows you to have the conveniences of a pager, cell phone, and laptop all in one little device." 'Course, the problem is getting all your devices to communicate using Bluetooth, and passing the data in a readable format. I will say, the sooner it works the happier I'll be - having to input all my phone numbers into a new cell phone *sucks*.
Here is the Correct Link for the lazy. With some stuff on the end to get around the lameness filter...
"You can't fight in here! This is the war room" --Dr. Stra
It's the old Chicken-and-Egg problem. Nobody feels particularly inclined to get their Bluetooth technology to market because there are no other devices to talk to.
I expect Bluetooth to be like USB. Pretty much useless for a couple of years except for the bleeding edge folks who don't mind buying technology before it's really ready. Have you seen the current bluetooth PCMCIA cards and their related software? Talk about a work in progress! I have one piece of software which will remain nameless where the Outlook like gui has widgets for all sorts of useful applications (LAN and Dial up access for instance) that don't actually work. If you dig aroudn on their site for awhile you discover that they don't work because they are implemented yet, the rest of the software crashes frequency and busywaits (I just love watching my OGR rate drop to 0 when the stupid BTEvents daemon starts up).
Still, until companies start biting the bullet and releasing these devices you won't reach critical mass and they will never come down in price. Fortunatly companies aren't doing this, they're going ahead and realeasing their devices now even if they are uselese so that in a couple of years you will be able to use your cell phone to sync your PDA and print out slides for a meeting. Just remember the old jokes about how USB used to be "Useless Serial Bus", and now people are looking at getting rid of PS/2.
I read the internet for the articles.
Until I actually read the article and found out that there really isn't the functionality of a PDA beyond storing addresses and emails (for the odd reason that you might want to put your email into a dead-end device to read. The DNRC Newsletter, maybe. ('Dogbert's New Ruling Class')
:^)
Guess I'll still be waiting for a good Palm/PocketPC cellphone integration with Bluetooth support.
.sigh.
Btw, one thing I didn't see. Any built in games a la the Nokia phones? (Have to have priorities, you know)
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Isn't Bluetooth the loser in the wireless wars? I though 802.11(?) was the one that looks like it'll succeed.
Different technologies, different uses....
Bluetooth is low power, lightweight, and suitable for embedding in almost any device (if you ignore the technical problems it has had).
802.11b is more robust and high speed, but has higher power requirements. For many applications, wi-fi is overkill - like using a firewire port for a mouse.
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
bluetooth and wi-fi are meant for totally different applications. They are not competing technologies.
IIRC, bluetooth is a replacement for IR. It's meant for small devices. wi-fi is for making wireless LANs.
Motorola isn't the only one using Bluetooth in phones - Nokia also has a model. Unless it's just a Mototola phone with a Nokia sticker on it.
My qualicomm and Verizon made this easy.
Go to my.verizon website, enter numbers and info.
send.
phone is now updated.
Oh and I can beam them from my palm to the qualicomm and vicea versa.
I assumed all advanced cellphones had this capability.
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