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Originally Posted by daS
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. |
Wifi is as easy as it gets (assuming no encryption or just typing in a WEP/WPA key.) Plugging in an ethernet cable is as easy as it gets. IR Beaming is as easy as it gets. Bluetooth, OTOH, may require soft reset, enabling discovery mode, then remembering to disable them, and just general tecknological cantankerousness.
Just today I had the strangest thing happen. I had a voice mail on my cell. I dialed the number and opened up my BT headset to listen. I assumed I had just missed the "please enter your password" comment, because I was connected but heard nothing. So I typed in my password followed by # and all I hear is the little buzz. Turns out even though I was connected and the BT headset icon was on, it was still using the phone speaker. Ok, fine. listen to the message and then hang up. Now, my BT headset is still in my other ear. After hangin up, my headset springs to live and I am getting the "you must dial a one or zero before calling that number" message and now my phone screen is showing that I had dialed my PIN as an actual phone number, while it simultaneously took it at the vmail center.
I guarantee you that wouldn't have happened had I just plugged a wired headset in.
I know you guys think I am a luddite when it comes to bluetooth. That's fine. I can live with it. I just know that for me, and many I interact with, bluetooth is as friendly and as trouble free as those confounded customized modem INIT strings of yesteryear.