Originally Posted by Ellen

I see. At least you still have the Treo 850, or the BB BOLD to look forward to!

Lol, yes absolutely and I do "Luv My Treo". I really wasn't ever considering the iPhone seriously but this seals it completely.


BTW: Over on another forum , there is a thread on how the iPhone's Safari Browser cannot access the WAP site. I make more posts via the WAP on most all forums as you may have noticed.

Originally Posted by Ellen

Charlyee, is this something that can be fixed with future updates for the new iPhone?

Ellen, I don't know. Rumore has it that probably because itunes does not use BT is the reason. It is a rather sorry excuse in my opinion.

This is a deal breaker for me, I cannot synch with Outlook via USB, BT is the only way.

I had an opportunity to play with a friend's brand new 3G iPhone yesterday and here is what I found:

There is nothing in the manuals about pairing with anything but a BT headset

I did pair his HS700 ok, for BT hands free.

I tried to pair with my laptop and his desk top. Both computers see the phone, but I get errors if I go any further.

So I guess the answer to my question is BT synching with Outlook is not possible.

Bummer

Oh I am sorry the mobileme program and exchange are the only things you can do wirelessly. But those just connect to the server.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "it will do it over the air. No bluetooth.."
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With exchange or MobileMe it will do it over the air. No bluetooth I just checked with about 4 people who have the phone.

Thanks, I read that article & a few others & infact that is where I got my information from.

It talks about inability do BT file transfer but is still not clear if I can synch with Outlook on my laptop for the calendar, contacts, task list, favorites etc.
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Originally Posted by charlyee

I am hearing that the 3G iPhone does not perform BT file transfer, the BT is for the headset only.

Is this true & if so, will the iPhone synch with outlook over BT?

Thanks much
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The answer is no. In fact here is a good article explaining the BT.

Here is some of the article. Click the link if you want the entire story.

Bluetooth flexibility - Right now, all you can use Bluetooth on the iPhone for are headset voice calls, and that's it. This is sufficient for most people, sure, but we would like for Apple and AT&T to open up the Bluetooth profiles for the iPhone. This means we would like stereo Bluetooth and A2DP for streaming music wirelessly, Bluetooth tethering so we can use the iPhone as a modem, and finally we would like to have Bluetooth file-transfer protocol so we can transfer files to and fro the iPhone.

iPhone 3G: What we didn't get | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET

I am hearing that the 3G iPhone does not perform BT file transfer, the BT is for the headset only.

Is this true & if so, will the iPhone synch with outlook over BT?

Thanks much
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