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I got my Sony Ericsson T68i on Tuesday and I also got the bluetooth headset, Yesterday I bought the bluetooh adapter for my ibook. This is pretty cool. I was too lazy to put in all my phone so I synced it using bluetooth. the headset is pretty cool as well. First there are no wires to get in the way and second it works from a pretty good distance. So far I'm pretty impressed with my T68 and the bluetooth headset. Setting up Bluetooth on OS X was a piece of cake.
Sorry I just had to share my excitement.
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there is no level of geeky quite like WIRELESS geeky.
when i hooked my airport up for the first time i started walking through my neighborhood surfing webpages to see how far i could walk and still get some kind of reception.
how far is the range?
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I agree, there is nothing like being able to deny a call by sending an sms that "you have to run upstairs and get your phone so you can call the person back" 
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Originally posted by scaught:
there is no level of geeky quite like WIRELESS geeky.
when i hooked my airport up for the first time i started walking through my neighborhood surfing webpages to see how far i could walk and still get some kind of reception.
how far is the range?
I haven't done that yet. I thought I was geeky.
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*sigh* wireless geekyness 
oh well, there's always next year
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
*sigh* wireless geekyness
oh well, there's always next year
Whats worse is I had the computer on my Airport Browsing the internet while I was syncing my phone. that is wireless geekyness.
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Originally posted by typoon:
I got my Sony Ericsson T68i on Tuesday and I also got the bluetooth headset, Yesterday I bought the bluetooh adapter for my ibook. This is pretty cool. I was too lazy to put in all my phone so I synced it using bluetooth. the headset is pretty cool as well. First there are no wires to get in the way and second it works from a pretty good distance. So far I'm pretty impressed with my T68 and the bluetooth headset. Setting up Bluetooth on OS X was a piece of cake.
Sorry I just had to share my excitement.
Bluetooth is cool.
Got a question for you typoon... Can you get your phone to work with your Mac and headset at the same time - ie can you have your headset on, get a call coming in, your Mac telling you who it is, then click on the accept call button and take the call on your headset? The guy at the desk next to mine has a T68i, a D-Link bluetooth dongle, iBook running 10.2.4. He can get his iBook to sync to his phone fine. He can get his phone to work with any number of headsets but cannot get all three to work together.
No biggie, but the thing is this - a mate of ours who's an Apple manager came in a while back and was telling us that all of their mobile phones were supposed to be changing to T68i's and they were being equipped with headsets. The demo they saw at Apple UK HQ had all three devices working together - ie able to take a call without having to touch the phone at all.
Just wondering as this is something I'd really like to be able to do.
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Originally posted by agentz:
Bluetooth is cool.
Got a question for you typoon... Can you get your phone to work with your Mac and headset at the same time - ie can you have your headset on, get a call coming in, your Mac telling you who it is, then click on the accept call button and take the call on your headset? The guy at the desk next to mine has a T68i, a D-Link bluetooth dongle, iBook running 10.2.4. He can get his iBook to sync to his phone fine. He can get his phone to work with any number of headsets but cannot get all three to work together.
No biggie, but the thing is this - a mate of ours who's an Apple manager came in a while back and was telling us that all of their mobile phones were supposed to be changing to T68i's and they were being equipped with headsets. The demo they saw at Apple UK HQ had all three devices working together - ie able to take a call without having to touch the phone at all.
Just wondering as this is something I'd really like to be able to do.
Dunno haven't tried it yet. I will, when I do I'll report back.
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Originally posted by typoon:
I got my Sony Ericsson T68i on Tuesday and I also got the bluetooth headset
And you spent how much on that headset!?
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Heheh. I have airport here but it isn't going to be on all of my computers until I get my powerbook and then, MAYBE, I'll consider the sony phone that just came out when the time is right.
Right now I'm happy with my motorola, the camera thing is great and fits in my pocket
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
And you spent how much on that headset!?
That's what I wonder, I know they go for $100 +
Not my price range, that's for sure.
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
And you spent how much on that headset!?
99 Bucks. the phone also came down in price too. The phone is now 269
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
That's what I wonder, I know they go for $100 +
Not my price range, that's for sure.
Just under 100 now. 99 bucks but I guess with tax just over
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Originally posted by typoon:
Just under 100 now. 99 bucks but I guess with tax just over
WIRELESS GEEKINESS WILL NOT HAVE A "price".
THAT IS ALL
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Originally posted by scaught:
WIRELESS GEEKINESS WILL NOT HAVE A "price".
THAT IS ALL
True, True.
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Originally posted by typoon:
99 Bucks.
$99 to save a wire from my hip to my ear is a rip off. Not to mention you have to replace the batteries all the time.
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Originally posted by typoon:
99 Bucks. the phone also came down in price too. The phone is now 269
You mean to say you paid for the phone FULL PRICE?!?!?!? *GASP*
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
$99 to save a wire from my hip to my ear is a rip off. Not to mention you have to replace the batteries all the time.
?99 minus the wired headphones price. And there are no batteries involved. (AnyCome BT headphone)
Not cheap, but it has stopped me from killing people on the road.
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
$99 to save a wire from my hip to my ear is a rip off. Not to mention you have to replace the batteries all the time.
no need to change the betteries. And yes to save the wire for me is a big deal. I always end up breaking the wire. Sometimes I forget I have it in my ear and yank the whole phone and everything out of the car, or I yank it out of the phone and the phone goes flying. I have also found the wireless headset alows me full range to turn my head therefor making it safer. so like I said to me it's worth it.
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Huh, the bloothtooth headset doesn't use batteries?
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Originally posted by Mr_Frost:
Not cheap, but it has stopped me from killing people on the road.
Recent studies (I just love that phrase) suggest that headset or not doesn't make any difference. Talking on a cell phone is still dangerous while driving. It has to do with your brain's ability to manage what it is paying attention to at any given time. Your brain is unable to pay attention to driving and listening to a phone conversation simultaneously at the same level as driving without talking on the cell phone. Interestingly, carrying on a conversation with someone in the car has little effect on your driving skills.
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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Huh, the bloothtooth headset doesn't use batteries?
It is a rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery.
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Can someone explain SMS messaging a bit more. My wife and I just upgraded to the T68i from our Motorola v60s (which we hate). The phones arrive tomorrow and I'm trying to brush up on all they're capable of.
Also, please don't pay retail for these. They're free through Amazon with an activation and very low prices in many places. We got them from AT&T for the webprice ($49 per phone after rebate) and then with my Cisco discount, we only paid $50 for both of them.
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Originally posted by William_F_House:
Can someone explain SMS messaging a bit more. My wife and I just upgraded to the T68i from our Motorola v60s (which we hate). The phones arrive tomorrow and I'm trying to brush up on all they're capable of.
Also, please don't pay retail for these. They're free through Amazon with an activation and very low prices in many places. We got them from AT&T for the webprice ($49 per phone after rebate) and then with my Cisco discount, we only paid $50 for both of them.
According to the Manual
1. Scroll to Messages, YES (button), SMS,YES, Options, YES, Service Centers, YES,
(If the service center number is saved on the SIM card it appears in the display.)
2. If there is no number in the list select ADD new?, YES.
3. Enter the, number including the international + sign and country code.
Sending Text messages:
1. scroll to Messages, YES, SMS, YES, Write new, YES.
2. Write your Message, YES.
3. Enter recipients Phone number or retrieve a number or group from Phone book
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Originally posted by kman42:
Interestingly, carrying on a conversation with someone in the car has little effect on your driving skills.
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That's because when you're talking to somebody else who is actually in the car with you the conversation tends to take the traffic into account. Your conversation partner will in all probablity not insist on talking to you about the latest sales figures while you're trying to overtake a lorry on a narrow road.
Phone conversations demand far more concentration. That's, btw, one of the reasons why parents tend to tell their children to be quiet while being in the car. Kids just carry on having a conversation without understanding the demads being made onto the driver.
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Originally posted by kman42:
Recent studies (I just love that phrase) suggest that headset or not doesn't make any difference. Talking on a cell phone is still dangerous while driving. It has to do with your brain's ability to manage what it is paying attention to at any given time. Your brain is unable to pay attention to driving and listening to a phone conversation simultaneously at the same level as driving without talking on the cell phone. Interestingly, carrying on a conversation with someone in the car has little effect on your driving skills.
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I was just kidding though, I have never killed anyone on the road. Had you fooled....hah
On a more serious note (I love THAT phrase) I always pull over when I get an incoming call, if I see that I don't have the time or place to pull over I just don't pick up the phone.
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I'm just waiting for the day of in car messengering. Being able to send angry IMs to the car that makes it's turn infront of the fire truck anyway. There was this STUPID car at the intersection today, everyone could see and hear the truck comming but the guy just goes ahead of it anyway! And it's like... YOU MORON!
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Actually, I meant more about the "applications" of using SMS rather than instructions of how to use it.
No bother though. The phones just arrived and I'm about to set them up.
Thanks.
Originally posted by typoon:
According to the Manual
1. Scroll to Messages, YES (button), SMS,YES, Options, YES, Service Centers, YES,
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I wish T-Mobile offered a bluetooth phone.  I really like the idea of wireless headphones, I just wish I could get some for my iPod.
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I also have a t68i and a HBH-30 headset. What I really want it to have OS X support the headset profile so I can use my headset with the computer as a mic. I want to be able to use VoIP with a wireless headset around my apartment. I walso want to be able to issue voice commands to my mac while I am in the kitchen... I can dream can't I?
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Originally posted by nonhuman:
I wish T-Mobile offered a bluetooth phone. I really like the idea of wireless headphones, I just wish I could get some for my iPod.
T-Mobile does. They sell the T-68i I'm sure they have the headset with it as well.
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Originally posted by hadocon:
I also have a t68i and a HBH-30 headset. What I really want it to have OS X support the headset profile so I can use my headset with the computer as a mic. I want to be able to use VoIP with a wireless headset around my apartment. I walso want to be able to issue voice commands to my mac while I am in the kitchen... I can dream can't I?
That would be cool. What do you use for VoIP?
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Originally posted by typoon:
It is a rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery.
How long does the battery last?
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Originally posted by typoon:
T-Mobile does. They sell the T-68i I'm sure they have the headset with it as well.
What! 
Last time I checked I couldn't find it.
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Well they sure do now! Damn... I wonder how much I can get for my v66...
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Originally posted by typoon:
That would be cool. What do you use for VoIP?
I'm thinking about buying NetFone from http://www.haxial.com/
Any feedback on that? What do you use?
I too want the headset profile for exactly the same reason.
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ultimate geekiness: using the bluetooth phone as a modem to dial up from LAX
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using the phone as a remote for powerpoint presentations
everyone was like "WOAH! Leme see your clicky thing!!!"
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Originally posted by AlbertWu:
ultimate geekiness: using the bluetooth phone as a modem to dial up from LAX
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using the phone as a remote for powerpoint presentations
everyone was like "WOAH! Leme see your clicky thing!!!"
Powerpoint?? Come on Albert!
The true Mac geek would be using the T68 to control a Keynote presentation!
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