Bluetooth phone as a walkie-talkie?

Al posted the following for all to hear...
> Television would never stretch the truth, so it must be doable.

Reminds me of the many occasions during 'The Bill' that you see people
using dummy phones, and that they always put the wrong style of 'beep'
on, e.g. using a motorola phone but having the nokia beep sound effect.
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Reminds me of the many occasions during 'The Bill' that you see people
> using dummy phones, and that they always put the wrong style of 'beep'
> on, e.g. using a motorola phone but having the nokia beep sound effect.

9210's getting used the wrong way round is the funniest
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"TI" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Yes the companies make mobiles to suit operators specs but they also
> should make the phones customers would like to have and having a
> walkie talkie at no extra cost sounds great! Perhaps a little Java
> program could fix that...

I'm sure someone has made or will make such a product - however, you will
need to pay full price for it yourself - don't expect any networks to run
over and subsidise the price for you!

Manufacturer's _need_ network support to gain market share - if there were
no network subsidies on handsets, then handsets would be developed and sell
on basis of features that end users want, rather than the features that
networks demand...!

Tariq

"Carl." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Ivor Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message

[snip]

> > I don't see the point when 446MHz licence-free walkie talkies can be
had
> > for 30 quid or so now.
>
> Unless you don't want to carry around yet another device.

Depends how much you need/want the service..!

Ivor

matt weber wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2004 22:53:15 -0800, [email protected] (TI) wrote:
>
>
>>Is it possible to have a two way voice conversation over bluetooth
>>featured mobile phones without the use of gsm network? What is a
>>typical mobile phone bluetooth range and can it be easily extended
>>with insertion of an amplifier IC?
>
> 10 meters. Increasing the power output of a Bluetooth Transmitter
> would probably violate the regulations involving the frequencies in
> use, not to mention that increased output = interference for other
> users. I think Bluetooth is limited to 1 milliwatt.
>
>

theres two classes of bluetooth, 1 milliwatt and 100milliwatt
but I don't think theres many 100milliwatt bluetooth devices ..

-Lasse

"TI" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to have a two way voice conversation over bluetooth
> featured mobile phones without the use of gsm network? What is a
> typical mobile phone bluetooth range and can it be easily extended
> with insertion of an amplifier IC?
> thanks
http://www.theregister.com/content/68/36134.html


Have a look at the bottom

Eddy

In alt.cellular.ericsson matt weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are talking about the NEXTEL products, they look like a walkie
> talkie, they behaves like one, but they aren't. If the Nextel
> network goes down, it works just like any other mobile when the
> network is down. Not at all!!!

I find they are just another method for loudmouth assholes to make
themselves even more of a nuisance. Rather than subjecting
everyone in the room to half of a conversation, they can subject
everyone in the room to BOTH sides of a conversation. Christ,
can't they put a volume control on those things?

-DanD

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"Dan Duncan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| In alt.cellular.ericsson matt weber <[email protected]> wrote:
| > If you are talking about the NEXTEL products, they look like a walkie
| > talkie, they behaves like one, but they aren't. If the Nextel
| > network goes down, it works just like any other mobile when the
| > network is down. Not at all!!!
|
| I find they are just another method for loudmouth assholes to make
| themselves even more of a nuisance. Rather than subjecting
| everyone in the room to half of a conversation, they can subject
| everyone in the room to BOTH sides of a conversation. Christ,
| can't they put a volume control on those things?
|

I couldn't agree more. They have a purpose, but using it as a replacement
for the phone in public is definately not one of the more mannerly ones.
"Beep .. yadda yadda yadda ... Beep .... yadda yadda yadda" :-(

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"Eddy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "TI" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Is it possible to have a two way voice conversation over bluetooth
> > featured mobile phones without the use of gsm network? What is a
> > typical mobile phone bluetooth range and can it be easily extended
> > with insertion of an amplifier IC?
> > thanks
> http://www.theregister.com/content/68/36134.html
>
>
> Have a look at the bottom
>
> Eddy
>
>