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Answer» This year even more Smartphones are coming with Bluetooth connectivity. Why would you care? So what? Well, read on. CES is guaranteed to dazzle and excite, with Bluetooth technology helping to create excitement. The wave of new products will include new Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready phones, health & wellness devices, consumer electronics devices, and PC peripheralI'm not so sure I would want to attempt to use Bluetooth to try to track down the person that stole my phone... It would be a quite a monumental undertaking, for one.... Quote from: Transfusion on May 20, 2012, 09:41:11 PM I'm not so sure I would want to attempt to use Bluetooth to try to track down the person that stole my phone... It would be a quite a monumental undertaking, for one....Sorry you missed my point. With the Bluetooth you never have a reason to take the phone out of your pocket. You take and make calls with the dongle that goes in lour ear. No Hands. Smartphone is out of sight. And stop using a purse. Wear a fanny pack.I guess I completely missed your point LOL, yeah fanny packs may be unsightly or outdated, but they're practical... You got me thinking about creating completely monolithic smartphones that interface with everything through wireless technology. All buttons are TURNED into capacitive touch zones. Charging can be done through inductive coils. Bluetooth has just enough range for personal use but doesn't reach beyond the walls of your office. Perhaps record stores could use Bluetooth to PROMOTE a hot-selling single, like when you walk into their vicinity a request pops up on your phone to join a Bluetooth hotspot, you click OK and it redirects you to a predefined page... http://www.liveadmobile.co.uk/news/ It's called "Bluetooth Proximity Marketing."Bluetooth was prevalent on cellphones in the mid to late 90's. For a while, bluetooth was integrated into almost every laptop, too. By the way, bluetooth can be used for more than just headsets. Many cellphones in the mid to late 90's could be synced and whatnot using a bluetooth connection to a laptop (or desktop with a bluetooth adapter). It's also completely unrelated to smartphones. I would have thought they all had bluetooth to begin with. A quick google sort of confirms this; I can't find any smartphones that don't have bluetooth capability. It's basically a replacement for that older Infrared Port that was common on older laptops, but the troublesome NATURE of Infrared transfer made it difficult to use.A clarification. The Bluetooth is NOT u;ed to link to the cell tower, which may be miles away. B A t short range, under two meters, Bluetooth can operate in full-duplex in the presence of other microwave transceivers, including then smartphone itself. It is transparent to the user. Once trained, the device 'knows' its partner. Bluetooth can run very low power at short range. Recharging the energy cell is almost a non-issue. The Bluetooth dongle will talk all day. But the smartphone won't. Smartphones have Bluetooth applicability. But not all have it implemented. Many low-end cell phones do not have it. Bluetooth can be implemented for a very secure short range connection. Bear in mind that field strength of radio waves decrease with the inverse of the square of the distance. With the digital methods used in current digital technology. You could have everybody in a shopping mall using a Bluetooth all at the same time. But the smartphone has to be on your person on in the fanny pack. Well within two meters. Voice activated allows you to call out. It understand ssimple commands and numbers. In different languages. There is a button on the dongle that you hit to turn off the mic when you don't want the thing to respond. Or the button can be on the smartphone and you can squeeze it without taking it out. Yes, is SOUNDS like digital wireless overkill. But this is where technology is taking us. New devices with performance beyond what was POSSIBLE many years ago.( Except for the military and very big companies.) Most of this was at the CES. More is coming. Bluetooth is alive. Bluetooth headsets do not need a 1 or 10mbps speed for basic voice transmission. A speed of 64 kbps is enough for digital voice . (And will sound better that a typical analog telephone.) Low bandwidth makes it possible for reliable secure short range communication between the smartphone and the headset. If everybody kept their smartphone in a pocket wile walking about, grab and run theft would go down. Of cause, the criminals will think of some other way to get you. Judging by recent USA news, it would seem that the criminals are now using banks as a form of legal gambling. Why bother with petty theft?Why not put a message on the background screen to deter theft ? ? After all you're convinced it woulld work for laptops... Quote Bluetooth is alive.I'm sorry...where have you been living? I can remember Bluetooth being in phones for at least the last 10 years. Although, I did notice when I was in the US that the whole area of mobile/cell phones is actually behind Europe as regards the latest and greatest. I'm unsure if it's this or just Geek being Geek.The US is behind. Unexplainable. PCMag is published in the USA and they called attention to some new stuff from HTC. Is HTC's StereoClip The Future of Bluetooth Audio?You're officially off the edge now... Quote from: patio on May 21, 2012, 04:11:27 PM You're officially off the edge now...Patio, I didn't design these tings. I never said I like the idea. It is what it is. Everybody is going to get one. It is unavoidable. Its the new thing. HTC is a big player and has the money - to convince every everybody to love it and buy it. Except you and me. ..and am am not very sure about you.If you actually read the article, it's not about stereo bluetooth devices being something new, it's about the quality of audio received over said devices. The HTC one uses a better codec for clearer audio. However, this isn't something new, as mentioned in the article the Plantronics Backbeat headset has excellent quality. I know that first-hand as well, as I own a pair of them and they've been around for years. This is actually my second pair of Backbeat headphones, as my chihuahua though the first pair made a good chew toy. They also talk about battery life being an issue with many bluetooth stereo devices. My Backbeat gets 7 hours of continuous listening, which is more than enough for me. I only have to charge it about every 2-3 days, and I use it quite a bit with my Samsung Galaxy Tab. I don't see Bluetooth reducing phone theft. I'd wager that more phones get quietly stolen out of people's pockets or bags by pickpockets than they do right out of their hands. Quote from: patio on May 21, 2012, 04:11:27 PM You're officially off the edge now... I can't disagree. Quote from: quaxo on May 22, 2012, 12:02:26 AM I don't see Bluetooth reducing phone theft. I'd wager that more phones get quietly stolen out of people's pockets or bags by pickpockets than they do right out of their hands. I've been trying to figure out geek's reasoning. The best I can come up with is if you are in a seedy neighborhood then it might be better to keep your phone in your pocket rather then out in the open. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense since it will still be obvious to most people that you have a cellphone anyway. Besides, if you're in a seedy neighborhood and you have a smartphone I would argue that most people would be using it to get out of that area using the mapping software, which last I checked sort of needs to have you holding it. Basically, As far as theft is concerned, this won't solve anything, since for places where it might be a problem, the problem has to do with the area and local crime and has nothing to do with how you are carrying it.I know a lot of people here who have had their phones stolen. All of them without their immediate knowledge. On public transportation and at big crowded markets is where it usually happens here. Stolen from their bags or pockets. There's a huge market for used (translated "stolen") mobile phones here. Most places that buy second hand phones will do so with no questions asked, no proof of ownership required. You can find several of these shops in any given shopping mall in Bangkok. Quote Basically, As far as theft is concerned, this won't solve anything, since for places where it might be a problem, the problem has to do with the area and local crime and has nothing to do with how you are carrying it.It has a lot to do with how you carry it. Where do you live? Would you carry your credit card between your fingers? You don't need to hold your cell phone to use Google maps. You don't even have to look at it. |
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