Posted by thefury
I've only had my T68 just over a week, so am very new to all this bluetooth stuff, but when the guy was giving me the "sell job" in the shop (CPWH), he said "Yeh, when my mate who has a T68 comes into range I can steal stuff from his phone without him knowing....like his background". Is he talking crap?
Are there any other uses for bluetooth apart from:
sending contacts/backgrounds
playing 2 player games
having a posey hands free with no leads but which you need a bank loan to buy in the first place!
Posted by Linkinpark17UK
He can only steal his background if both phones have bluetooth switched on and the his phone is set to send the background.
Posted by thefury
Thanks, I thought so.
He made it sound like he would pick up his mate's phone like some homing device and be able to get what he liked off it!
Posted by karim
To thefury:
Hi,
Yes, of course bluetooth has many other uses
Among them there are my favourite ones:
- you can use your mobile as a GPRS modem, which will provide a decent Internet connection to your Palm, PocketPC or notebook
- ... and last but not least, by plugging a Bluetooth USB adapter on your PC you can synchronize your Outlook calendar and contacts with your t68m/t68i.
This last tip is quite interesting when you consider that this way, your mobile phone can be used as a perfectly valuable substitute to a more expensive, heavy PocketPC.
Posted by arroyootje
The blue flashing light looks cool in the dark
Posted by orang3
hmm i guess for some time only ... when you are sleeping the blue led keeps on flashing ... it will become irritating...
Posted by thefury
Hi Karim,
what you say is true, however GPRS in England is quite expensive at the moment!!
I think I'll stick to using it for important things like two player games!
Posted by russtproof
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heehee.. soo true
Posted by Jimak
T68 will not talk to any device unless:
a) you create pairing (this means that you trust the paired device)
b) you initiate the communication
These scary stories are the same bull***it like the GSM SIM card cloning. It is possible but if you look at the conditions needed to clone a SIM card, you can just forget about it all and sleep in peace
Same with Bluetooth security.
Posted by evoke
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Don't think it's that expensive - in fact it works out cheaper for me! Plus it's always on so you can keep up with Esato all day and only pay for the data you send and recieve. Suppose it depends on how much you use it but WAP at 10p/minute is a rip off in my opinion.
Get broadband as well and you'll never leave Esato!
Ed
Posted by BleuTango
Major Caveat: You cannot use a Palm handheld via Bluetooth on the AT&T network at this time. It is not supported. AT&T has a proprietary application to access GPRS over Bluetooth that is Windows only.
Posted by c00lman
Hehe... here in sweden we have free GPRS until 30/10 =)
With Comviq =)
Posted by simonize
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Gäller det för alla abonnemang? Alltså inte bara kontantkort.. Jag har Comviq pott Dag
Posted by BarTMan
Here also...we got GPRS for free
Posted by thefury
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I'm with BT Genie which means I get WAP for nothing! So that makes GPRS expensive for a tight git like me!
Posted by mores
over here in austria GPRS is way expensive.
Over at www.pocket.at there is a comparison of gprs tariffs, how-much-do-i-get-for-X-euros etc.
10MB cost between €7 and €14,
50MB cost between €43 and €52.
There was another comparison somewhere that showed exactly where HSCDS leads, and where GPRS is the better choice.
Of course, the always-on and speed features are amazing. And I hope I can use it soon, but right now I will stick to HSCDS.
Posted by theEND
just a GPRS info tip...
here in canada i paid 80 dollars (60 US dollars) for 1.5 MB of data.
grrr!
Posted by mat_ov
In spain, with Amena (operator), you can buy a card (Amena MAS)for 10€ and you get 1 month wap navigation trough GPRS, but you cant connect a pc to the mobile...
Posted by Krubach
In Vodafone (Portugal) is free for some time now and till the end of the year (at least, because they have been always delaying this freebie)
Posted by pachy
Stealing things often creates a pretty blue flashing light effect.
Posted by supersonicfruitfly
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hahahaha
Posted by pachy
That was a month & a half ago, ..still it`s nice to know my work is apreciated.
Posted by shithappens
the other party can only do so with your permission.......the security's pretty tight on
handsets...dunno bout the rest of the manufacturers tho!!
Posted by benjamingreenau
what manufacturers are you talking about
SE actually impresses me with the security measures they take when it comes to bluetooth and IR. Must say though, the bricks have a wierd thing - they are always discoverable: bluejacking
Posted by mariolouis
i don't see any security with IR when turned on. only se phones have this option to turn it on and not sfor some time only then it turns off.
Posted by Zwanzig
How do you "steal" the background, and from which handsets is it possible to stel it?
Posted by simion_levi
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You can't.
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None. It's not called stealing when the owner has to allow you access first.
Posted by dave_uk
It's not called 'stel'ing either!
Posted by bhang
What is bluejacking?
Posted by Zwanzig
@ dave_uk Sorry dude english is only my second language. But inthis case i believe it wasn't a matoor of if I could spell it or not... sometimes I'm too fast when I type things... Btw, no offence taken, keep on commenting my english, otherwise I'll never learn!
@ bhang Check this thread: http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=15976&forum=16