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Originally Posted by Rob Alexander
Sounds reasonable. If you're too clueless to follow the simple instructions for pairing your headset, then you should have to pay a $10 fine anyway just for being a drain on society.
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While I wouldn't say it quite so harshly, I agree with you that all it takes is a willingness to
read a few lines of instructions. If you've never done it, I would guess that pairing a headset to a phone would take as much as five minutes. (I don't think they pay $120/hr at Micky-D's)
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Originally Posted by Rob Alexander
It took all of about 45 seconds.
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I have purchased a few different brands of Bluetooth headsets and car kits from
http://www.woot.com, many of which were referbs that didn't come with any documentation. In all cases, and with all phones - including WM, Nokia and Motos, it took far less than a minute to figure it out without reading anything. While boring, I would love to spend a few weeks pairing phones with headsets at $10/per.
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Originally Posted by Rob Alexander
I know Ed hates BT, and never misses a chance to criticize it, but I really don't see what's so hard about it. If something even better comes along someday, then I'll be all for it, but in the meantime, it's working fine for me.
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I feel exactly the same way.
It's true that some things are harder (like getting your phone to act as a modem for your PC - which was more an issue of the software on the AT&T Tilt than it was a pairing issue caused by Bluetooth.) But phones and headsets are as easy as it gets these days. I know a few "technophobic" seniors that have done it themselves.