[BTM] OS X and Bluetooth - Smart Phones?

[Matthew Hart]

The T610/T616 and the Z600 (I have both) are not true smart phones.  Smart
phones are PDA and Cell phone combo, such as the Handspring Treo, the
Microsoft Smartphones and The sonyericsson P800 or P900.

Of all of these the P900 works best with the mac.

MIDI files are polyphonic ring tones, most new phones have this.  WAV or MP3
as a ring tone, is a feature in the P800/P900 or Microsoft phones.

I have been using the P900 for a few months now, it is a big improvement
over my P800.  I would highly recommend it.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/p900

Also, all of these phones use a GSM network as opposed the CDMA and TDMA,
which means you can not use Sprint (except for the Treo which had 2
versions, Sprint and GSM)

I hope this helps,

Matthew 

On 11/21/03 6:15 AM, "est" <est at lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:

> This is a real newbie question, as I am about to plunge into the world of cell
> phones for the first
> time...
> 
> I am a Mac fanatic.  I want to control my computer with my phone via
> Bluetooth, I want a color
> screen that I can upload games, custom ring tones (from homemade .wav files) -
> I believe they are
> called polymorphic ring tones..?  I also want the ability to backup the
> contents of my phone like
> the address/phone number list in case I lose or break my phone, too.  And,
> notwithstanding, I
> want to be able to somewhat customize the appearance, but it's not a major
> importance.  A bigger
> screen and maybe a flip-down to cover the screen would be nice so it doesn't
> get scratched.
> 
> I have heard of 'smart' phones, but was unable to find an ample amount of
> information.  Really,
> there's a lot of information to sort out and I haven't had the 'joy' of
> getting screwed on a bad plan
> or have a provider with bad coverage or whatnot.
> 
> I can say that I have heard good things about Sprint's coverage in my state
> (Colorado), especially
> for the mountains.  They use the PCI spectrum, I believe, but don't know what
> that really means,
> other than I think it was an old section of bandwidth once dedicated to
> schools, but they never
> used it so the gov't took it back and auctioned it off to the suits.  I
> digress.... what I want is one of
> the better options that is out there.  Maybe not the best, but definitely
> upper crust.... something
> that I can grow into really well because I love OS X and technology in
> general.
> 
> Thanks for any and all help regarding a very fuzzy issue,
> 
> EST
> 
> 
> 
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