IIRC, the Verizon/bluetooth issue ended up in a class action court case back in early 2005 (partial article here - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB110557581692624772.html - more on your favorite search engine).
I also know that a number of folks have since published articles about how to turn that functionality back on through hacking a firmware "seam" (bit string that enables/disables the phone's original capabilities). In the motorola world, my E-815 (next rev. of the V710) was not too difficult to do once I got a cable and I understand that several, but maybe not all, of the RAZR series is also hackable. I ended up with complete access to all ringtone entry slots, pictures, atc. via bluetooth along with all PIM data (more than what I used to be able to sync). I also understand that one can then access the bluetooth modem profile for high-speed (EVDO?) access w/o a data plan but that wasn't my raison d'etre for hacking it. YMMV wrt other phones' capabilities. Henry Alex Hewitt wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 22:50 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: >> On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent. >> You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently. :-/ >> >> -- Ben > > My daughter got a verizon cell phone with a camera built in. The first > thing I noticed was that there was no way to get images off the phone > without using their service. The phone supposedly had bluetooth > capability but when I connected it via bluetooth to my Macbook I got a > "service unavailable" when I tried to access the phone's internal memory > to fetch images. Verizon disables (or simply fails to provided) the > bluetooth support needed to get at anything stored on the phone. I > suspect that if you wanted to correct that you'd need to load new > firmware which wouldn't be readily available or wouldn't necessarily > work on the Verizon network. > > -Alex > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
