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Community weekly poll: Is Bluetooth technology important to you?
- 10/10/07 2:50 PM
Who cares nifty or dorky?
by john3347 - 10/11/07 3:06 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I often find myself on long-winded cell phone conversations since I ditched my home phone and it is really convenient to be able to move about and do whatever I would rather be doing than stuck on the phone. Usually, I am doing something that is easier to do with two hands, if not impossible to do with one. I use a corded headset, but would switch to a cordless if the price were much more affordable. Within reason, I don't care what people around me think of my headset - corded or cordless!
NO - It is not useful!
by peddlerp - 10/11/07 5:01 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Bluetooth makes my crappy SPRINT service even worse!
not the headset
by ktm882 - 10/11/07 6:27 PM In reply to: NO - It is not useful! by peddlerpGet a better phone dude.
Can't get a better phone!
by peddlerp - 10/12/07 5:01 PM In reply to: not the headset by ktm882If I do anything at all to my account it will extend my relationship with SPRINT for another two years.
My wife spends 10 hours per month fighting with SPRINT over billing errors, then writing letters to the Attorney General and the FCC. The last thing we worry about is the crappy reception and connectivity.
I thought when the Magna-Carta was signed that "Indentured Servitude" was outlawed... except for SPRINT!
Bluetooth? Huh?
by kweimer - 10/11/07 6:02 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My oh my. I was really feeling sorry for these kids wearing those things over their ear. With the bone-crushing music kids are addicted to, I thought sure they were wearing hearing aids and that they had to really make hearing aids big...much bigger than my grandfather had to wear...to compensate for gross hearing loss.
Not That Blue
by lkbrown5 - 10/11/07 8:27 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am not needed in the ER, so I hardly need a cell phone. There is nothing so important that require more than 1 minute on my cell phone ("I'm on my way." "I am at the supermarket. Do you need anything?")
And if you want to hold a converstation with me, talk to me when you don't have to multi-task. In addtition, I don't want to hear all of the intimate details of your life when I am on the train, plane, or standing in line next to you to make a purchase. Nor do I appreciate you having a conversation with someone on your phone when you are having lunch, or dinner with me.
I am sick of the rudeness, and crudness created by lack of cellphone manners.
Blue tooth?????
by laburner - 10/11/07 11:01 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Wireless technology has been around long before cell phones and personal computers. Why call it "blue tooth" now?
Yes because...
by Mendieta - 10/12/07 12:10 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First let me say I'm a motorcycle owner, motorcycles have most controls at the reach of your your fingers and hands, you can't take off your hands from the handelebar at most situations, so a using a phone headset is a must, other aspect is that you must use a helmet and a wire outgoing from the helmet is not a very pleasnt sensation, so i place my phone inside the seat compartment (not fixed at my belt) and a wireless headset permanently fixed inside the helmet, this works just great...
BLUETOOTH
by zuhair44 - 10/12/07 2:08 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use it for the following reasons:
1. It is safer while driving for voice calls
2. By using it while driving I avoid getting a traffic tickedt. It is an offence to use cell phones while driving unless they are "hands free"
Zuhair
Something useful
by mgb3x3 - 10/12/07 3:45 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I like using it in the car, with no wires in the way. While at conferences and meetings, people have come up to me while I listen to the person on the other end. That is awkward, and I'm trying to find the polite and easiest way to let people know I am on a phone, they haven't noticed.
While I am surprised that so many still find the look of a bluetooth headset "dorky", how about a useful discussion on etiquette when your using one in public.
I still see many "dorks" talking on the phone without hands free while driving. That is well beyond dorky.
Safety first
by keithhodgson - 10/12/07 10:38 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Bluetooth allows car drivers to use a mobile/cell more safley when driving (not using a phone at all is obviously even safer). Just look at the idiots driving one handed and with a phone stuck to their head...straight to the scene of their next accident.
Yes... beats buying overpriced cables
by genotypewriter - 10/13/07 12:40 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If I want to transfer files from my mobile phone to my PC or vice versa, the cheapest way is Bluetooth. USB cables don't always come in the box and they usually cost a fair bit.
Another instance is when I'm giving a photo or a file on my mobile to a friend. Bluetooth is the easiet way here.
Generally, Bluetooth is useful as long as the files are not too big.
Bluetooth technology
by 131238 - 10/13/07 10:27 AM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I tried it, a pain in the a***! Can't beat a wire at least I know what it's connected to. Wireless domestic systems are a doddle to invade, so I'll stick to what I know.
John B.
Yes, now that I've got several uses for it...
by nwarnock - 10/13/07 12:48 PM In reply to: Is Bluetooth technology important to you? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I got a new cell phone some months ago. A feature I got that I wasn't really looking for are the mp3 capabilities. It dawned on me that this might be a solution to the wired mp3 player that had been making me nutso in the gym. Moreover, I was tired of the crick in my neck, from squeezing the handset there, trying to talk while doing chores like feeding the cats. So I started hunting for stereo bluetooth headsets. Easier said than done... finally found the Motorola S9. Not perfect but pretty good. So Use #1 for BT is simple cellphone to headset, for calls or music. Then I realized that I could lose the wire between my work PC and earplugs by using my S9 at work... after the purchase of a BT adapter -- BINGO -- Use #2 (and my fave, btw). And finally, on the same shopping trip to get that adapter, I went hunting for a way to easily transfer mp3s to the phone and to get pictures from the phone to the PC. Well DUH - Use #3!
So, yeah, BT techology is a winner in my book!
Am I the only one??
by ronycirocco - 10/13/07 2:06 PM In reply to: Yes, now that I've got several uses for it... by nwarnockI use my BT to listen to music, my wife does not want to hear my tunes, soo.... I plug my new Plantronics 220 in my ear, and listen to all my stuff while surfing on my Mac!
We are both happy!
Tony
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