Why cant iphone bluetooth properly?

cpinch73 · 25 Sep 2008 at 22:24

my mates got sum great material on his iphone..........but why have Apple not allowed this state of the art phone to send stuff via bluetooth? why do these big companys not give people what they want?

J1234 · 25 Sep 2008 at 22:37

Mostly for security reasons.

Avalon · 25 Sep 2008 at 22:49

They were worried users would start sending mp3's etc all over the place and that wouldn't be good for a company pushing itunes as a legitimate place for artists to publish now would it ?

Durzel · 25 Sep 2008 at 23:06

Justin said:
Mostly for security reasons.

Cmon, you don't seriously believe that do you?

Practically every phone that's come out in the last 3 years has had Bluetooth file transfer capability.

unknowndomain · 26 Sep 2008 at 01:17

Practically every phone that has come out in the last 3 years feels out of date now even though the iPhone has some obvious over sights its way ahead in others

Adrianr · 26 Sep 2008 at 01:59

unknowndomain said:
Practically every phone that has come out in the last 3 years feels out of date now even though the iPhone has some obvious over sights its way ahead in others

Doesn't make the lack of bluetooth file transfer any less fraustrating though.. I really wish another company made something as good as the iPhone, i really do dispise Apple.

titchard · 26 Sep 2008 at 07:47

Adrianr said:
Doesn't make the lack of bluetooth file transfer any less fraustrating though.. I really wish another company made something as good as the iPhone, i really do dispise Apple.

I love it when people say things like that "I despise Apple" You probably don't like there products don't be so dramatic!

Rich

Will_3rd · 26 Sep 2008 at 08:04

A lot of other companies do the same notably Motorola, though it is a bit odd nonetheless.

wolvers · 26 Sep 2008 at 08:07

And the lack of A2DP...........cutting edge phone my ass! :rolleyes:

Kainz · 26 Sep 2008 at 09:13

I always thought it was because of the affect blueteeth could have on battery life. We all know how stupidly power consuming the technology is (can't stand it personally) but given that the iPhone's battery life is somewhat shoddy as it is...

I never use the tech personally and have it always switched off but it is a bit odd for them not to fully implement the tech either way.

Adrianr · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:24

titchard said:
I love it when people say things like that "I despise Apple" You probably don't like there products don't be so dramatic!

Rich

Ok, if you can find a happy medium between dislike and despise, i'l run with your suggestion

CGrieves · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:36

If all other major phones have the functionality, and it is critical to you, why buy the iPhone? Unless it has redeeming features that outweigh the functions that are missing, I can't really see the point of wailing on about it...

Yes there are things the iPhone doesn't do. If they are important to you, buy elsewhere. It's not rocket science.

matt100 · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:40

wolvers69 said:
And the lack of A2DP...........cutting edge phone my ass!

to be honest the lack of A2DP or AVRCP isn't exactly a big deal.. bluetooth headphones really aren't taking off at all.

matt100 · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:41

Adrianr said:
Ok, if you can find a happy medium between dislike and despise, i'l run with your suggestion

"don't want to buy because there are products that better fit my needs"?

Adrianr · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:08

CGrieves said:
It's not rocket science.

You think? It's not critical, it's just bloody annoying. They've already implemented two features the battery can't properly support (3G and GPS), why not go the whole hog for proper bluetooth! Infact it's probabaly more annoying that it's still there, you just can't use it for it's main purpose!

matt100: Bit long winded.. How about "The wonders of placebo effect"?

matt100 · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:30

Adrianr said:
You think? It's not critical, it's just bloody annoying. They've already implemented two features the battery can't properly support (3G and GPS), why not go the whole hog for proper bluetooth! Infact it's probabaly more annoying that it's still there, you just can't use it for it's main purpose!

matt100: Bit long winded.. How about "The wonders of placebo effect"?

are you suggesting file transfer is bluetooths main purpose on phones? you're pretty wrong if you are!

wolvers · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:38

matt100 said:
are you suggesting file transfer is bluetooths main purpose on phones? you're pretty wrong if you are!

Well I'd say;
1, for hands free
2, for file transfer
3, for wireless audio

So if you think that 1 out of 3 is ok for a supposedly 'jesus phone' then you're pretty wrong.

CGrieves · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:46

Adrianr said:
You think? It's not critical, it's just bloody annoying. They've already implemented two features the battery can't properly support (3G and GPS), why not go the whole hog for proper bluetooth! Infact it's probabaly more annoying that it's still there, you just can't use it for it's main purpose!

My battery fully supports my use of 3G and GPS, which is reasonably heavy.

And as I say before, if it's "bloody annoying" to you, why didn't you go for a phone that supports file transfer via bluetooth? Personally I've never used, or required the use of that feature so the iPhone ticked all the boxes for me.

Adrianr · 26 Sep 2008 at 14:01

On the iPhone it's one bloody annoying thing, on other phones it's many, ergo, get the phone with the least 'bloody annoying' things.. Simple enough.

Using GPS tracking for 30 minutes and it draining half your battery is NOT 'fully supported'. If you get slightly better performance fair enough, but the above is consistent with 3 3G iPhones i've used, so i'm sure i'm not alone.

LordSplodge · 26 Sep 2008 at 14:24

Adrianr said:
I really wish another company made something as good as the iPhone, i really do despise Apple.

Other companies had the chance, just like they could have made an iPod before the iPod but they didn't.

If you dislike Apple that much then click back and stay out of the Apple forums. Although if you hate Apple just because they won't let you copy music of the phone via Bluetooth then that is a little odd in my opinion.