Do you actually use bluetooth?

[labrat25]

I've always wondered... I see all the devices with it, but wonder how much it actually gets used (and is worth looking into getting for my next system)

so i was wondering what everyone mainly uses it for

 

[CombatChuk]

My sony ericsoon T68i and my tungsten t3 get along quite nicely!

 

[Todd33]

Bluetooth is the single wosrt technology I've used on my PC. It needs a lot of work.

 

[SilentZero]

Only times I ever used it was to transfer files between 2 Powerbooks, but only a few times and wasn't really that impressed.

 

[MadRat]

Its better than an infrared port and probably uses less juice than one, too. Nothing like draining the battery four times faster by enabling infrared...

 

[AnMig]

use it for my MX 900 mouse

use it for my blue tooth ipaq gps unit.

 

[Overkast]

I did get the Microsoft Bluetooth wireless mouse/keyboard combo for Christmas, but there was some serious lag time when the devices would come out of a hypothetical "sleep mode". In other words, if you didn't touch the devices for a short while and then suddenly moved the mouse later on, it would take 1 or 2 seconds for the reciever to wake up and catch up with your movements.

I returned that piece of crap and got a Logitech wireless MX Duo with RF wireless technology.... the response and performance is unbeatable.

Bluetooth sux for responsiveness, but is great for diversity when it comes to PDAs and other compatibility.

 

[Fern]

No, never used it

 

[Matthias99]

Use it between my cellphone/PDA (nice to look up someone's info on the PDA, tap their number and have it dial them for you on the phone; just wish it would properly auto-sync between them), and cellphone/PC (lousy Nokia 3650 doesn't even HAVE a serial sync cable; you have to use bluetooth). I also have a Jabra Freespeak bluetooth headset for my phone (very nice, especially while driving). I suppose I could also use it to sync up my PDA to my computer, but I usually drop it in the cradle to recharge anyway, so I never bother. I tried 'net access on my PDA through the phone, but my service is usually too flaky for GPRS to maintain a high data rate.

The only issues I have are that my phone isn't smart enough to be able to talk to the headset and the PDA at the same time, and that the phone is also not smart enough to sync address books up automatically with my Palm Pilot. But since I mostly use the headset while driving (and I don't usually use the PDA while driving), and there's third-party software that can keep my address book intact, it's not *that* big a deal. Definitely a bit of a hassle, though.

There are also still bugs to work out in terms of hardware compatibility. The first USB bluetooth adapter I bought didn't work with my phone (I didn't know they MADE ones that didn't support the serial port emulation profile! What idiot thought that up?), and the Jabra headset I bought turned out to be an older rev that also didn't work with my phone (Jabra blames Nokia for switching hardware at the last minute, and replaced it for free). Nokia's sync software is also a bitch to set up and use, and is nowhere near as smooth as what Palm has. Considering the whole point of Bluetooth is supposed to be seamless compatability between devices, this is not exactly promising.