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Comment Bluetooth (Score 1) 96

A little bit of the point has been missed here. Sadly, Bluetooth has devolved from a wireless communication protocol to a marketing idiom by industries which are more driven to leverage the moniker than adhere to the protocol itself. Unlike IEEE's 802.11 protocols, which focus on data transfer which by nature cannot be altered, Bluetooth offers a protocol that drives a smörgåsbord of services, which were intended to be delivered as a package yet in reality are being cherry-picked to insert into devices. What really grinds my gears is not how a specific Bluetooth function performs on a device (such as the modem link), but how a device is marketed to have Bluetooth functionality, but then device-appropriate functions are disabled (such as Verizon's disabling of OBEX file transfer on cell-phones, to keep data over the profit-generating network). IMHO, if you're going to offer Bluetooth, offer the full catalog of device-specific features, not all of which are enabled on any RIM device.

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