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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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