[Macwoburn] Re: MacWoburn Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5

[Bill Gerber]

There is an article in the September 2006 issue of MacWorld - Camera Phone
Tips - that relates. It includes a section about moving files to a Mac.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the article is misleading; i.e., to do what
is described, I think, requires both Bluetooth and OBEX, and the latter is
blocked in most Verizon and probably Sprint phones (though I'm not sure).
It appears to be possible with Cingular phones.

Bill Gerber

In message ID <fc.000f425b007f4926000f425b007f4926.7f4929 at bostonbbs.org>
on 07/29/2006, macwoburn at macwoburn.org wrote:

m> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:25:09 -0400
m> From: Richard Akerboom <boomer at sylsoft.com>
m> Subject: Re: [Macwoburn] Macs & Cellphones - Bluetooth and OBEX
m> To: MacWoburn User Group <macwoburn at macwoburn.org>
m> Message-ID: <p06230911c0f022f77e34@[207.136.202.208]>
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m> 
m> would love to hear the results, assume you will post to the list.
m> 
m> i have heard that verizon has one phone w/ all the stuff unblocked 
m> (not counting the treos, blackberrys etc.), don't recall the model #. 
m> ask at one of their big stores.
m> 
m> rich

I will post whatever more I learn. I recently spotted a Sprint store and
so will try to visit there to see what they offer. (I suppose their
web-site might offer some of the answers, but some of this is new enough
that I'd prefer to be able to ask questions.)

When they first came out, I'm led to believe that Verizon did not block
OBEX in the Moto RAZR, but now they do. And, they tell me, the top-level
PDAs (Palms, Verizon-Q, maybe one or two others) are not blocked. I could
go that route, but I'd rather not deal with the larger form-factor of a
PDA.

Bill

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