Welcome to the new world of Bluetooth! Its a friendly name -- well, a lot more enticing than its rival 802.11 -- but be warned: getting started with this is not simply a matter of plug and go.I bought this adaptor because Id been disappointed by the lack of communications between the Bluetooth on my SonyEricsson T68i and the Bluetooth on my Palm Tungsten T2 organiser. The two are dimly aware of each other, but theres almost nothing they have in common, so communications are reduced to the odd Xmas card or so. Seriously, there is almost no application or object type that the two can exchange.
So putting Bluetooth on my laptop seemed to be the proof of concept. If that didnt expand horizons, nothing would. I was particularly keen to use the SonyEricsson Image Editor to download photographs to my phone. This took ages to set up.
The symptoms of the problem was that although the phone and the computer were clearly aware of each other, in Bluetooth terms, the Image Editor application on the laptop couldnt detect the phone. (In the end, if youre interested, the solution involved going to the SonyEricsson Web site, downloading the Siemens Mobile monitor, and then using Settings/Control Panel to set communications to COM5.)
Now everything is working fine. You just switch on both devices, activate Bluetooth, and youre away. Provided youve set them up as Paired Devices, you dont need to re-key the numeric code to set up communications.
The range is 10m apparently. Most of the time, youll have the phone and computer on the same desk. But if youre moving to Bluetooth printing, or Bluetooth connection to your Internet modem, which I have yet to investigate, you may get closer to that 10m limit.
Best of luck. I hope this was useful. Its an intriguing technology.
