No Bluetooth File Transfer facility in T-Mobile G1?
Our beloved reader, Madi, has questioned a critical thing:
I have 2 doubts about new T-mobile’s G1. 1st is weather it has the bluetooth file transferring facility, and 2nd is weather it can be used in countries of the south asia.
I open the T-Mobile G1’s user manual which has been leaked few weeks ago. In page 34-35 about Bluetooth, it never mention anything about File Transfer Facility via Bluetooth. The user manual only tell that we can use Bluetooth to send and receive calls using a headset or hands-free car kit. Thus, we cannot transfer any file to other phone (or computer) via Bluetooth? I search through the document and found nothing to prove that G1 supports any file transfer. Probably we should use email on transferring a file?
It is something unusual in this openness era. Sony Ericsson and Nokia have long history on supporting File Transfer via Bluetooth. What Google are trying to protect then? If it is really true, it is one negative consideration to buy Android platform, beside no video call facility. Please answer this, Google!
October 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am
There will be many third party apps to address any shortcomings of the software. For example there is an app, I forget the name, that lets you store files in the “cloud”. So you could use this facility to transfer files between phone and computer.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:56 am
@Ecogeek
Yes, it should be. But there is no facility on sending a file phone-to-phone as usually we do among peers.
October 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am
First of all i should thank Amir who answerd my question. But i stil have 2 probs on this G1.
1. Is it coming cim unlocked to be used in the south asian region?
2. What is 3.5G tecnology which it mentions in its specifications. Isnt it about the video call facility?
Please answer me Amir or any body else….
October 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Does the iPhone 3G has the bluetooth file transfering facility?
October 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am
@Madi
1. I don’t think so
2. It has HSDPA for Internet access, but not for video calling
3. iPhone 3G doesn’t have bluetooth file transfer facility
October 24th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I bought one yesterday and already have some complaints:
1. You are right, Bluetooth supports only headsets, which means that you can’t even transfer your phone contacts from an old phone like mine (Sony Ericsson w600i). You also can’t use it as an Internet connection from a laptop computer, like I could with my w600i. It was also incompatible with my w600i’s SIM, so I couldn’t transfer contacts that way. On the bright side, I was able to create a CSV file of my contacts and import them into my Gmail account, which then synchronized with the phone instantly.
2. The display looks horrible in direct sun light.
3. The battery barely lasts a full day under light use. I’m hoping that higher capacity batteries will become available, as my w600i could last almost a week on it’s LiPo battery.
4. Possibly due to #1, it won’t transfer my contact list to my BlueAnt ST3 hands-free set. My w600i had no problem.
5. The speakerphone sounds raspy and distorted. My w600i was clear.
Hopefully, since this is an “Open Source” initiative, the general programming public will take care of the Bluetooth limitation, but I’m stuck with the rest of it. How can my two-year old Sony phone still be superior in basic phone functionality?
November 13th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I had the W600i and it worked way better than the G1…the G1 sucks ass…if it wasn’t past my 14 days I would send this piece of shit back…Google is full of fucking shit.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:10 am
G1 doesnt have bluetooth FTP but does have the ‘prospect’ of some clever person writing a programme. The iPhone just says NO to bluetooth and MMS.
So with iPhone ya get email and bluetooth headsets. Thats it.
- with G1 ya get full MMS and no currently limited bluetooth with possiblity of bluetooth soon (?).