I have been using the t616 since it came out a yea ago, by far the best phone I ever owned. Having bluetooth on wil only drain your batteries, and you receive random advertisements from phone co.'s and misc. online services on mMode. There is no point to leaving it on until you are transferring your phonebook, sending images, or in class, waiting to battle someone else in mini-golf!
That's bluejacking, and it's not very prevalent anywhere I've been in NYC, LA, or Chicago (where I live)... and I travel to those cities a ton. Coworkers in London say it happens, but that it's barely above background noise (ie, once every 6 months if that).
This is however your sentence: Having bluetooth on wil only drain your batteries, and you receive random advertisements from phone co.'s and misc. online services on mMode.
Either you are saying mmode=bluetooth (obviously not), or you need to put
I know a guy here at my job who has a bluetooth phone, and uses his bluetooth PDA to dial from it, without taking the phone out of his pocket. People who use this functionality (I'd imagine) would have to have bluetooth on, or it defeats the whole purpose of dialing from the PDA - if you can take it out of your pocket to turn on bluetooth, you can dial whoever you need to call.
That and with my bluetooth headset and voice dialing I don't have to touch my phone, to answer or make a call.
And so what if it drains the batteries a little faster. I have to plug it in every three days instead of every four.
Of course I don't have any sensitive info on my phone.
And as to using the phone as a bug, the technology is out there to do that with any wireless phone out there. Without using any fancy bluetooth hacking to do it either. The phone doesn't even need to be on. If you want sec
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Is there really any need to have bluetooth turned on all the time? I would think that it just wastes batteries.
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Is there really any need to have bluetooth turned on all the time?
Only if you live in the UK [wired.com].
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This is however your sentence:
Having bluetooth on wil only drain your batteries, and you receive random advertisements from phone co.'s and misc. online services on mMode.
Either you are saying mmode=bluetooth (obviously not), or you need to put
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And so what if it drains the batteries a little faster. I have to plug it in every three days instead of every four.
Of course I don't have any sensitive info on my phone.
And as to using the phone as a bug, the technology is out there to do that with any wireless phone out there. Without using any fancy bluetooth hacking to do it either. The phone doesn't even need to be on. If you want sec