bluetooth for my pc

[sumeshkri]

i have got a cellphone with bluetooth facility. can i send files from my computer to my pc? with what programme can i do this? plz.

[guns1inger]

If your PC has bluetooth built in you can. If it doesn't then you will have to buy a bluetooth adapter for it. These usually just plug into a USB port. They will come with drivers and software.

[sumeshkri]

if i am wrong plz forgive me. but do you mean a cable(with ther nokia pc suite software) which we connect to the pc's USB for transferring files from the pc to the phone?

[guns1inger]

No. It is a small device like a USB memory stick. Bluetooth is a wireless transfer method. The PC needs to have a bluetooth transmitter/receiver to talk to the phone.

[hech54]

[redwudz]

Though my Motorola Razr cell phone has Bluetooth, I just use a USB cable for transferring files. But I also have the transfer software. As mentioned, you may be able to use Bluetooth for all this, but you would need the Bluetooth PC adapter and the software.

[sumeshkri]

thanks a lot for the advice.

[Ai Haibara]

Slight question - I already use my PocketPC's Bluetooth connection as an alternate way of transferring files to my phone, but I can only transfer one file at a time (annoying when you want to transfer a lot of files to the phone ). Could I overcome that limit with a BT adapter connected to a PC? I suspect it's a limitation of the protocol, though.

[rallynavvie]

Depending on the Bluetooth stack you're using you can batch send files, meaning they're still sending one at a time but it will queue the others and send them consecutively. I use the built-in BT on my Sony Vaio laptop for transferring files to and from my Windows mobile phone all the time, I also use the BT connection for tethering so I can use the internet connection on my phone from my laptop without having to connect the two. Keep in mind that current Bluetooth (2.1 +EDR?) only supports something like 8-10Mb speeds so it isn't going to be very fast moving files back and forth.

[hech54]

I "Bluetoothed" once....between my wife's phone and mine....just to see if it worked....it did.....now where's my phone's USB cable? By the time I get Bluetooth on both phones set up/turned on/activated...whatever...I'd be done by now.

[Ai Haibara]

Ah, okay. Yeah, I don't expect high-speed transfers with BT. I'm only using it to transfer small files to the phones (and I'm too lazy to pull out the USB cord or microSD card ).