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Old 10-22-2005, 05:24 PM
Ed Hansberry
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Originally Posted by Duncan
Ah - but you are wrong on that too. Currently I have 7 BT enabled devices on the go - every one of them from a different company. They all pair easily, are simple to use and work togther well. Your poor assessment of BT seems largely based on using products that have BT implemented badly - and you just can't judge the whole tech on that basis (especially as whatever eventually replaces it will have just the same problem).
You and other geeks. The only consumer success on bluetooth is headsets for phones. Everything else is a small niche market.

I've had/have at least 10 different bluetooth devices in the past 3 years. Just last week I had to reboot my PC because it stopped accepting BT requests. I am having problems with 100% of the BT devices ever owned. Jabra 250, Stowaway keyboard, PDA2K, various iPAQs, Nokia cell phone, etc. The number gets higher with people at work or that I know I've helped get cellphones and headsets set up. They all know now how to re-establish a partnership without calling me on the phone because I've walked them through it enoughtimes when the devices just stop talking to each other. Various carriers, various makes/models of phones and headsets. You are saying that through some extraordinary stroke of bad luck, I just haven't happened upon any trouble free BT devices? :roll:
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