Bluetoothy!
So, I got ahold of my phone yesterday. Also got
the bluetooth dongle and the jabra headset, so I'm fully equipped.
Thoughts?
Bluetooth + OS X is amazing. I plugged in the dongle and was ready to pair with my phone right away. Not even a reboot. Told iSync to sync and it did. Didn't have to do any configuration or anything. So, my phone now has the same address book and calendar that is available on my iMac, powerbook and palm. That's very very slick.
The phone itself I would rank as "pretty good." The quality of the device, the screen, the buttons and such aren't as good as my Samsung S105 (the phone it is replacing). I like a lot of the menus and such better though. Much more feature rich obviously. It's actually smaller than the S105, even when the S105 is closed. It's better than my Sony T300, Motorola V66 and Nokia 59xx though. I'm considering a "transition" phone as I wait for the manufacturers to really get bluetooth functionality figured out.
The bluetooth headset (jabra bt200) is nice. One push of a button and I'm talking on it, doing voice dialing, whatever. It's very comfortable to wear in the ear, and I can get about 20 feet from the phone before the noise gets bad. It sucks outside though, where even a bit of wind overpowers it. But, I knew that when I bought it - it was worth saving the money over all the other brands. Plus, it's far sexier than any of the other brands and it feels like a fashion accessory.
Downsides of it all? I'm bummed (but knew it going in) that I can't have the phone paired with both the headset and the computer at the same time. Apparently there are only a couple phones available, none available here, that can do that. They have multiple bluetooth chipsets inside to do it, which sounds cost and space prohibitive. Anyways, hopefully someone will figure it out in the future. The only other bummer is that I'm not getting onscreen notification of incoming calls, even when my Mac is paired with the phone. It worked for a while yesterday, but I think went away when I updated the firmware on the phone (to fix a really weird incoming call bug). Hopefully either Siemens or Apple will fix this in the future.
So, to end, here's a picture taken from the phone's camera. This is on the "small" setting, which is designed for using as pictures that pop up when someone calls you (IE, "Steve" calls and you see a picture of Steve).
Bluetooth + OS X is amazing. I plugged in the dongle and was ready to pair with my phone right away. Not even a reboot. Told iSync to sync and it did. Didn't have to do any configuration or anything. So, my phone now has the same address book and calendar that is available on my iMac, powerbook and palm. That's very very slick.
The phone itself I would rank as "pretty good." The quality of the device, the screen, the buttons and such aren't as good as my Samsung S105 (the phone it is replacing). I like a lot of the menus and such better though. Much more feature rich obviously. It's actually smaller than the S105, even when the S105 is closed. It's better than my Sony T300, Motorola V66 and Nokia 59xx though. I'm considering a "transition" phone as I wait for the manufacturers to really get bluetooth functionality figured out.
The bluetooth headset (jabra bt200) is nice. One push of a button and I'm talking on it, doing voice dialing, whatever. It's very comfortable to wear in the ear, and I can get about 20 feet from the phone before the noise gets bad. It sucks outside though, where even a bit of wind overpowers it. But, I knew that when I bought it - it was worth saving the money over all the other brands. Plus, it's far sexier than any of the other brands and it feels like a fashion accessory.
Downsides of it all? I'm bummed (but knew it going in) that I can't have the phone paired with both the headset and the computer at the same time. Apparently there are only a couple phones available, none available here, that can do that. They have multiple bluetooth chipsets inside to do it, which sounds cost and space prohibitive. Anyways, hopefully someone will figure it out in the future. The only other bummer is that I'm not getting onscreen notification of incoming calls, even when my Mac is paired with the phone. It worked for a while yesterday, but I think went away when I updated the firmware on the phone (to fix a really weird incoming call bug). Hopefully either Siemens or Apple will fix this in the future.
So, to end, here's a picture taken from the phone's camera. This is on the "small" setting, which is designed for using as pictures that pop up when someone calls you (IE, "Steve" calls and you see a picture of Steve).
Posted: Tue - September 30, 2003 at 03:05 PM
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