Linked by David Adams on Wed 1st Oct 2008 17:57 UTC
The Bluetooth headset has gone from nifty novelty to ubiquitous accessory. They've become better and better with each generation, so now that they've matured, just how good are they? And what use are they for something other than making you look like you're talking to yourself?
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Well, all Nokia E-series and N-series devices... to tell you the truth, probably all Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices have voice recognition built-in. There is no more pre-recording of contact names and you can enable some functions (e.g. bluetooth on/off
) via voice.
There's also a cool feature that enables the phone to tell you out loud who is calling in-between rings. And I've upgraded from E61 to E51 to get A2DP support specifically (which turned out to be great choice, the phone's interface flies in comparison to the crawl of E61). A2DP works great.
rant -> Symbian maybe not the pinnacle of interface design, but I had the possibility to switch from my Nokia E51 to the iPhone 3G and I did not. But I'm a geek and a FOSS advocate. I want my copy/paste. I want free software titles by the thousands. I don't want to be locked in. And I don't want to generalize, I'm sure the iPhone is also cool in some ways for geeks, but I can't shake off the feeling that there is something really superficial to wanting to have an iPhone. For most, it's probably the look of the hardware and the look of the software and the way it behaves. /endrant