Bluetooth woes

A few days ago I posted a question about the apparent unreliability of my
old HBH-60 headset when used with my new ES K700i. Various encouraging
responses forced me to accept that I might be mistaken and to persist with
it.

Now I have acquired a PCMCIA Bluetooth card for my laptop (a
Motorola/Digianswer as it happens). It's not necessarily the card I'd have
chosen given a free choice, but heck, Bluetooth is Bluetooth, right?

Guess what? I can get a connection to the phone and surf and e-mail to my
little heart's content--for anything between 2 minutes and an hour. Then
the Bluetooth connection just fails for no obvious reason. This is exactly
the same behaviour as with my HBH-60.

I admit I am new to all this Bluetooth stuff (and it is turning out to be a
*lot* less transparent than the hype implies), but it beggars belief that I
could get two Bluetooth devices to work, but only well enough that
they fail at random intervals. Surely they'd work right or not at all?

So now we come to the point of all this: am I discovering the hard way that
Bluetooth is inherently rather fragile; or do I have a flaky phone (the
only common element), or is the K700i product-line flaky? (I'm having other
problems with it besides the ones I've posted here.)

Roy

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Roy Hann wrote:
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My SE servicepoint has informed me that several Bluetooth problems have
been addressed in the latest firmware updates.

Try to get the latest software update for the K700i: I have read that this
will solve many issues.

"Roy Hann" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
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> A few days ago I posted a question about the apparent unreliability of my
> old HBH-60 headset when used with my new ES K700i. Various encouraging
> responses forced me to accept that I might be mistaken and to persist with
> it.
>
> Now I have acquired a PCMCIA Bluetooth card for my laptop (a
> Motorola/Digianswer as it happens). It's not necessarily the card I'd
have
> chosen given a free choice, but heck, Bluetooth is Bluetooth, right?
>
> Guess what? I can get a connection to the phone and surf and e-mail to my
> little heart's content--for anything between 2 minutes and an hour. Then
> the Bluetooth connection just fails for no obvious reason. This is
exactly
> the same behaviour as with my HBH-60.
>
> I admit I am new to all this Bluetooth stuff (and it is turning out to be
a
> *lot* less transparent than the hype implies), but it beggars belief that
I
> could get two Bluetooth devices to work, but only well enough that
> they fail at random intervals. Surely they'd work right or not at all?
>
> So now we come to the point of all this: am I discovering the hard way
that
> Bluetooth is inherently rather fragile; or do I have a flaky phone (the
> only common element), or is the K700i product-line flaky? (I'm having
other
> problems with it besides the ones I've posted here.)
>
> Roy
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