Re: Bluetoot, XP Pro, and our cell phones

["Douglas Handy" <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob/Booth,

It is common for laptops to have Bluetooth...but I've not seen a lot of
> desktops that do.


But Bluetooth dongles (via USB) are fairly cheap, and work on desktops or
laptops with no internal BT.  AFAIK, they all need drivers to be installed;
you can't just plug one in like a thumbdrive and have it autoconfigured.


> With a Treo anyway, you can use a USB cable between the Cell Phone and PC.
> It is also faster than Bluetooth.


Only because of the stupid implementation of BT under Palm OS.  It is done
as a layer under their serial port manager library, which for some reason
can't handle port speeds over 128kbps or so.  I've never been able to get BT
throughput past around 118kbps on any Palm OS device, even when using BT
access points capable of 800kbps or more.  I haven't tried with a Treo 700p
or 680, but I suspect the same limitation still exists.  It is convienent;
just relatively slow IMHO.

Doug