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What can you do with Bluetooth on the iPhone?; Bluetooth File Exchange, iSync do not work
Posted 30 June 2007 @ 10am in Guides/How-Tos
The iPhone has Bluetooth 2.0+EDR built-in, but so far it seems to carry little functionality outside use of accessories like the Apple Bluetooth headset.
Apple’s Bluetooth File Exchange for Mac OS X cannot send files to the iPhone stating “Device does not have the necessary services.”
iSync for Mac OS X cannot be used to synchronize with the iPhone via Bluetooth, delivering the message “iSync can not connect to this device.”
We’ve yet to hear reports of Windows applications that can successfully interact with the iPhone via Bluetooth.
So, what can be done with regard to computer-to-iPhone Bluetooth interaction? If you know, please drop us a line.
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Posted by Windrdr
1 July 2007 @ 3pm
This issue seems to be in line with Apple’s emphasis on “phone” - the a decision was made to focus on that aspect of the device - which they may find to be the root cause of many of the disappointments expressed about it. That while they are pitching it as a revolutionary new phone, from a slightly different perspective, it is a revolutionary hand held computer, that also happens to interface with the legacy telephonic networks, allowing one to use it, out of the box, as a telephone.
Not that Apple should be faulted for the decision - would people have clamored (or camped out outside the Apple Stores for days) to get their mitts on a revolutionary new hand held PC? Probably not.
There’s a lot of potential not exploited, and a lot of work to do so, with the iPhone. Just reading through various reviews, there is quite a list of functions identified that it doesn’t do right now (mostly in the area of interfacing/intereacting with its larger computer brethren) that can and will probably be addressed via software updates.
That list even includes the handicap that eventually waved me off from purchase (with a little less than 24 hours to go) - the inability to function as a modem (or, more to be more accurate, to act as an internetworked computer capable of sharing its connection).
I’ll buy one eventually - but only after Apple gets past this stage of getting the camel’s nose in the tent, in the form of getting a portable computing device into people’s hands - and starts developing it to exploit that potential.