On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:54:40PM -0500, Fred wrote: > Now, if someone can give me some helpful pointers about getting it to sink > with Konsole via BlueTooth, my joy will be complete. I could get it working > eventually, but just don't have the time right now. I hate having to sync > with Windoze -- never works quite right.
For the record (and probably somewhat off topic for this list), this is the primary reason I have a mac: Bluetooth integration. Using bluetooth, I want to perform several tasks: * Sync Contacts from computer to phone and back * Sync calendar events from computer to phone and back * Use Dial-up networking to use my phone as a modem over bluetooth (GPRS) * Less importantly then (but more so now), I'd like to be able to send files from the phone to the computer (camera images) * Least importantly, I'd like to be able to send files from the computer to the phone. (Python scripts, mostly.) When I last tried these tasks (around January 2k4), none of them were easy -- and when I say "not easy", I mean, I spent several weeks of free time compiling various underdocumented bluetooth stacks in an attempt to get any of them working. I was eventually able to achieve the last two items on my list with a lot of hard work, using command line tools and scripts that I wrote myself. With my Mac, I just open iSync, and it lets me add my phone, and sync up the first two just by pressing a button. Dial up networking requires stepping through some prompts to set it up, and knowing the *99# code to use a dial out number. Sending files to the computer simply pops up a dialog asking me to receive it, and sending files to the phone just uses a simple GUI tool called "Bluetooth File Transfer". If there's one thing Linux could do better for integration with mobile devices, it would be a well documented, highly functional bluetooth integration attempt. It may be that this has changed in the time since: I was running a 2.4.20 kernel when doing this, and there was no clear winner among the bluetooth stacks at the time, which I think there may be now. But I can tell you that even getting the limited amount of things done that I did was very difficult, and the 3rd option on my list above was something I was simply never able to do, and wanted to quite badly. So, I bought a Mac instead. And I've been happy with it ever since. -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer
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