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bluetooth range question |
Chrispy
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ok, this has been on my mind for a while. i got my k750i recently, and was wondering what the range for it's bluetooth is... me and my friend with a moto e398 went down a mid-city street and began transfer of a big file. i walked down the street(crowded, lots of cars) and continued looking at my phone. the transfer continued until i was about 50 meters away(i estimate). Is this a new spec of BT?Its max ranges is meant to be 10m right? the e398 isnt a new phone, so i wonder ow it could be using a new version of BT too(if it is)  My F/W is R1BC002, if that helps. Is this just the technoligy exceeding its specs, or something far more sinister... lol. thanks in advance for your help  |
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aminator
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Motos have a range of 100m, most others are usually 10m range |
Chrispy
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really? i dont see how, isnt it like determined by the people who come up with the standards for a connection tpe. ie. BT has 10m range, because it has a standard set for the transmission max power. Any uber-BTexperts please answer  |
aminator
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I know what your getting at, I dont understand it myself, if its doable why dont all maufacturers upgrade to the Class 1 (100m range) BT.... Motos have been doing it for a long time now too |
Chrispy
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would be pretty cool if se's did that, i definitely think that 10m range is a little limiting |
strizlow800
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Yes, I agree, but the Moto's bluetooth is much slower than the SE one |
Chrispy
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the thing that annoys me, is that bluetooth is advertised as having a max 1 mbit /s transfer rate, but in reality, even 5 cm away, i only get about 5 K bytes/s which is... 40 k bits.. which is ridiculasly slow...  |
torque_tonic
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5KB/s?!?! the slowest i've had was 10kb/s..
what phone has the reciever got?
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jcwhite_uk
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The only sony ericsson with 100m range was the z1010
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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i've tried my k750 bt with a mpx220 and the speed is quite fast. Im really impressed coz i once did it with a moto v500 (or v551) and it was a totally pain in the *ss. we spent like 20 mins transfering a 1mb file.
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Chrispy
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Im getting about 5 kbytes to a p900, a moto e398 and my old t630
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LEVO 75
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i get 40 KiloBytes p/s with my w800i |
NyteMunkey
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On 2006-07-26 12:11:22, aminator wrote:
I know what your getting at, I dont understand it myself, if its doable why dont all maufacturers upgrade to the Class 1 (100m range) BT.... Motos have been doing it for a long time now too
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Because Class 1 BT more than cuts battery life in half. For those who leave on BT all the time for BT headsets, you would have a talk time of about 10 minutes. Most people only need 10m for BT headsets and communication with devices near by.
While class 1 and class 2 are standards, it is not an exact science with the device manufacters. My K750 can work with my class 1 dongle from about 100ft straight line through a window/wall.
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jadler
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I think two reasons for not having 100 meter range bluetooth in phones could be to keep radiation levels down, and to maximize battery life. In a phone you usually use bluetooth for connecting to a headset, having phone close by, so greater range might not be very useful for most users.
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govigov
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On 2006-08-31 20:06:51, LEVO 75 wrote:
i get 40 KiloBytes p/s with my w800i
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ditto here.. never tried the range though....
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Posted: 2006-07-26 10:11
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