RIM Crippling BlackBerry Bluetooth Speed?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @04:22PM from the not-so-fast-guv'nor dept.

Alex King writes " I organized a bounty for the creation of a 'BlackBerry as a modem' solution for Mac OS X earlier this year. The resulting product — Pulse, from Brain Murmurs — allows you to use your BlackBerry as a standard Bluetooth modem. It works great on both Windows and Mac. Current problem: The Pulse solution doesn't run as fast as it used to. Brain Murmurs did a bunch of testing and working with their users and found the problem: RIM has crippled the Bluetooth speeds in recent OS upgrades. Is this a 'mistake' on RIM's side that will be fixed? Or did they do this on purpose for some reason?"

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Re:Why not open source the software? by mumkin · 2006-12-12 22:41 · Score: 3, Informative

Alex King doesn't own the software... he organized the bounty to encourage someone else to undertake it.

It was a pretty small bounty -- $675 -- and I think he lays out his reasoning quite cogently in this blog post.