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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*.
Yeah, finally a Bluetooth product makes it to market, but what's it gonna talk to?? Maybe a PC with a Bluetooth expansion module, but not much else right now. Wait a year or two for the price to come down, and Bluetooth to expand into other devices, then shell out for it.
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
Fortunately those of us with GSM phones haven't had to deal with this, since user data is stored on the SIM card.
Here is the Correct Link for the lazy. With some stuff on the end to get around the lameness filter...
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After reading the review, I'm still unclear how they can make the claim that it incorporates the functions of a laptop. I can see phone and pager, and maybe PDA, but not laptop.
It is just a new way of delaying the "Slashdot Effect".
The name of this trick is the "Select-Copy-Select-Paste Slashdot Effect". I heard it scales quite better than the alternative.
Isn't Bluetooth the loser in the wireless wars? I though 802.11(?) was the one that looks like it'll succeed.
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From article:
Timeport(TM) 270c pretty much allows you to have the conveniences of a pager, cell phone, and laptop all in one little device.
WOW! I can play Q3 on this baby!?! And I can compile my little C and Java apps. I bet the resolution of the TV in from my TV tuner will be fantastic! Why on earth did I spend so much money on a laptop when I can get it all for less in the plam of my hand?
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
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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Bleagh.... When I first saw the headline, I thought they'd come out with a TARDIS extension.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This thing does nothing like a laptop. It doesn't even do as much as a handheld, so how is it like a laptop?
Arghh! 360 degrees in a circle, 365 days in a year. Or is he implying the battery lasts for a year?
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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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
WTF? They don't mention price, or the dimensions of the phone in either the article, or on Motorola's site. Is this thing like $4 billion and the size of a football?
:)
I'm more concerned about the size of the phone. If it won't fit in my pocket, I don't want it. Belt clips are for tools. (you can take that either way
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The Dial-Up Networking Profile is exactly what your thinking of. Any other Bluetooth device that knows how to use the Dial-Up Networking Profile (which is all PCMCIA cards at this time) will be able to use the phone just like any other modem.
"Profiles" is the Bluetooth name for standardized functionalities. So when you're looking at Bluetooth devices, check to see which profiles are implemented.
On the more general note of Bluetooth as wireless serial: yes, it is. Bluetooth is capable of emulating--not that you'd ever want to--62 simultaneous serial ports. So if there isn't a profile that does what you want, you can implement it yourself over simulated serial links. Also, existing apps that know how to use a serial port will be very, very easy to retrofit to use Bluetooth.
Further, many newer high-end phones (e.g., the Nokia 8290) have infrared capability. I just have to put my 8290 near my computer's infrared port, put the phone in infrared mode, and my computer instantly recognizes it. Nokia's PC Suite software (and many third party programs) lets you copy entries to and from your phone's address book.
Bluetooth and 802.11b are for entirely different purposes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me see you have a mobile phone headset talk to a mobile phone via 802.11b. Do you use ethernet to plug your mouse/keyboard into your PC?
Cheeeerist, that bloody Intel twit has a lot to answer for.
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