Write your opinion about Wireless Bluetooth?

[satheesh]

Write your opinion about Wireless Bluetooth?

 

[Jesse]

Wireless Bluetooth?

Hmm...I think it's quite similar to wireless lan. But if wireless bluetooth will be made, i think it will be okay.

 

[voice]

I have to say I completely dislike Bluetooth in all of tis incarnations for one, and only one, reason: Fat women with big hair making phone calls in Wal-Mart.
Almost every time I go to Wal-Mart, I will have at least one encounter with at least one monstrously huge woman with big hair who makes a call on her Bluetooth headset while standing next to me. It always starts with the woman standing next to me and saying something that does not indicate she's on the phone.
"Hi." Or maybe, "How are you?"
I reply in like. As greetings are very generic, it seems very likely that I give the same or similar greeting as the person she's talking to did. That throws me off even more, because she acts like she paid attention to my response and says something like, "So, what have you been up to," or, "I'm glad to hear you're doing well." Then the conversation gets weird and disjointed as i try to keep up with her increasingly esoteric conversation. After an interval anywhere between 30 seconds and my personal record of just under 3 minutes, she looks up, asks me what the hell I think I'm doing or who am I talking to, and I realize what happened and tell the fat-woman-with-big-hair-and-a-Bluetooth-headset of the day that I'll be over in Gardening dieing of embarrassment if she needs me.
So, I hate Bluetooth.

 

[VPmase]

I like bluetooth. I don't use it for a wireless headset though. I use it to connect my Wiimotes and cellphone to my PC and mess around with it

 

[agaitu]

I like it ,i use it for connecting gprs to my pc and it is very useful benig wireless since i get signal in one room and i have to use my pc in other room

 

[mr kennedy]

isn't bluetooth already wireless?

 

[voice]

isn't bluetooth already wireless?

I really think the topic was a bit of a miswording... just something redundant. Bluetooth is, after all, a type of wireless device connection. I'm sure the topic would mean exactly what is was intended to mean if you just cut out the word "Wireless".
-Jake

 

[Dazz]

If I am correct Bluetooth is a kind of wireless connection like Wi-Fi or even IR (even though you need line of sight for that) and I for one don't like it.

Did you know that if you are using a Bluetooth headset for your mobile (so Bluetooth is active on your phone) that someone with a PDA and some software (easy to download) can make your phone dial any number they want, with out you knowing until you get the bill.

Massive scam really really popular in the UK, someone sets up a premium rate telephone number and then walks through - Train Stations, Shopping Centers (Malls) any other centers of population and gets all the Bluetooth enabled mobile phones to call their number for 60 seconds. Result a whole load of cash for the scammer and a hell of a hone bill for YOU.

 

[Eric@TLG]

bluetooth is cool especially handy for cell phones.

 

[Tau_Zero]

Bluetooth is pretty nifty. While I'd much rather WiFi for my network due to it's higher throughput and greater coverage area, bluetooth provides an excellent alternative for those short, low-power connections, i.e. cellphone-laptop or controller-xbox360. It's simple to "discover" devices and set up links and doesn't seem to be as prone to interference as wifi.

As far as bluetooth hijacking goes, I'm sure it's just as easy, if not easier, to stumble upon and hook into a wireless access point. When anything tries to connect to my cellphone, I first have to get a number from the searching device (ie laptop) and manually put it in the found device (ie my cellphone) when the notification comes up. Once that's linked up, whenever I try to connect, it asks me whether I want to allow the connection. And besides, I'd rather someone make a few phone-calls than jack my wireless internet to download illegal terrorist child pornography.

 

[conceptye]

Bluetooth is great, but in my opinion WiFi is better as it is more stable, faster and has a larger coverage distance. However, the number of times that a file transfer between two mobile phones on Bluetooth fails is extremely annoying as it takes very long to send and is a real waste if it fails right at the end.

And there's bluetooth hijacking which poses great risk...

 

[tmbejoy]

I have to say I completely dislike Bluetooth in all of tis incarnations for one, and only one, reason: Fat women with big hair making phone calls in Wal-Mart.
Almost every time I go to Wal-Mart, I will have at least one encounter with at least one monstrously huge woman with big hair who makes a call on her Bluetooth headset while standing next to me. It always starts with the woman standing next to me and saying something that does not indicate she's on the phone.
"Hi." Or maybe, "How are you?"
I reply in like. As greetings are very generic, it seems very likely that I give the same or similar greeting as the person she's talking to did. That throws me off even more, because she acts like she paid attention to my response and says something like, "So, what have you been up to," or, "I'm glad to hear you're doing well." Then the conversation gets weird and disjointed as i try to keep up with her increasingly esoteric conversation. After an interval anywhere between 30 seconds and my personal record of just under 3 minutes, she looks up, asks me what the hell I think I'm doing or who am I talking to, and I realize what happened and tell the fat-woman-with-big-hair-and-a-Bluetooth-headset of the day that I'll be over in Gardening dieing of embarrassment if she needs me.
So, I hate Bluetooth.

well the same thing happend to me, once i was attending a tech exhibition in our college, i saw a young lady came right behind me talking with a nice accent said "how are you darling" i replyd back "im fine", after few seconds i asked her name, she gave me a strange look, then i realised she was talking in a phone via bluetooth. damn these technologies are embarassing some times.

 

[Tau_Zero]

See, now that's an entirely different beast. Wireless cellphone headsets.
The bluetooth technology has nothing to do with why they're annoying. It's the concept of a tiny stupid looking roach in someone's ear and their talking to seemingly thin air. So, make a decision about bluetooth itself, considering all of it's uses (cellphones, mice/keyboard, game controllers, etc.) and features/drawbacks, not one particular device that just happens to use bluetooth.

 

[Dan]

I reckon Bluetooth is brilliant - I like connecting my PDA, Phone, Laptop & my Dads laptop together.

 

[tgkprog]

can they hijack even your bluetooth is set not to allow new connections / no visibility

 

[Legostylist]

Hasn't wireless bluetooth already been made?

 

[sandogg]

I like bluetooth. I use it for A2DP music streaming from my phone mostly.
Low power consumption is the main attraction.
And the range and data rates are improving.

 

[Smith6612]

Bluetooth is easy to use, efficient, and flexible, though it's a bit slow when it comes down to transferring bulk amounts of data compared to Wi-Fi, WiMax or Ethernet/USB/FireWire cabling.

 

[Silverspoon]

As a consumer, it's great for the cell phones and that hands-free approach. Although I find them mostly poor in quality, and I'm talking overly loud so the mic that's 1 inch from my ear (not my mouth) can pick it up.

People for some odd reason think "smaller is better, i just need to talk loud enough so EVERYONE around me can hear what I'm talking about..." It's also unencrypted and easily tapped into... of course, we have no need to do that, but I'm sure Big Brother loves to listen in.

And bluetooth is like... 14 year old technology right (1994- wikipedia)? come on... one would think encryption would become mainstream by now.

 

[coolv1994]

i havent tried it yet but i think it is useful like for phones and laptops etc.