[BTM] Palm OS / Bluetooth?

[Stephen Jonke]

I have and am very happy with my Palm Tungsten T, but you should 
consider bluetooth to be an beta (alpha?) quality product (not just on 
the Palm - bluetooth itself seems to beta or less). Indeed I have 
doubts it will ever really get out of beta. You have to make bluetooth 
happy if you want it to work well. Still it's pretty cool anyway. I 
have not found bluetooth syncing to be a big plus because it is slow 
(slower than USB syncing), it isn't entirely reliable (long syncs tend 
to fail), and since syncing via cradle or charging cable also charges 
the TungstenT there's even less benefit to bluetooth syncing.

However, I do use bluetooth for other things including transferring 
individual or small sets of files/applications to my Palm that I've 
just downloaded - I use the program Drag'n'tooth to do the transfers 
which is much nicer than Apple's provided utility - where it does prove 
very convenient and quick. I have also used it with my T68i bluetooth 
phone to connect the TT to the internet. The coolest bluetooth thing by 
far is Sony Ericsson Clicker (now re-titled "Salling Clicker") which 
lets you use your T68i phone to control your Mac via bluetooth. 
Selecting a playlist to play in iTunes, or searching for a song by 
title from your T68i and playing it on your Mac always results in jaws 
dropping to floor. :) I'm hoping the Salling folks or someone else come 
out with a bluetooth multimedia remote control that is designed to work 
with Salling Clicker, Romeo and whatever else. A remote control type 
layout with a small display and alphanumeric keyboard. Toss in a 
learning IR remote-remote (a remote-remote module with bluetooth that 
you sit near your IR components and control with the bluetooth-remote) 
to control non-bluetooth stuff and... oh to dream....

Steve


On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 08:11  AM, Jonas Salling wrote:

> Been lurking on this list for a while, and wanted to ask for a favor. 
> What Palm OS based handhelds have Bluetooth (either built in or as an 
> optional accessory)? Also, what Palm OS version do these things 
> usually require?