My Bluetooth world

My Bluetooth world

I've heard about and I knew I even had it, but things just started crystallizing.

I have seven Bluetooth devices in my house: 3 mobile phones, 1 computer (Mac Mini), 1 USB Bluetooth add-on (for my Thinkpad), 1 mouse, and 1 keyboard (both for the Mac).

Just this weekend, I decided to get them all dancing together.

The impetus was the arrival of the Sony Ericsson W800 (the Walkman phone).

The Mac sniffed it immediately and offered to let me sync with it (using iSync), send files to it, use it as a dial-up internet model wirelessly, and -- most amazing of all -- turn it into a remote control for the Mac. It can control presentations (next next back...), media players (play, stop, volume, etc), or even the mouse on the screen. The phone controls the mouse on the screen! It's wild.

So then I got to thinking... my Treo has Bluetooth and I linked it to the Mac and the Thinkpad. Now I'm sync'ing wirelessly. I can also send mp3s from the huge iTunes collection onto the Treo easily. Since it's so easy to get music off there now, the Treo is a more plausible thing to play music on.

Same from the Windows-based Thinkpad side -- I downloaded ptunes and now I can take all the Yahoo Unlimited music with me if I want. Until now, I thought I'd have to just use that subscription on my PC through speakers (since I don't have a Windows music player). Well, now my Treo can be my WMA music player.

All of a sudden, all my phones play music, sync wirelessly, do email, etc etc. Things are changing fast.

Now for the last thing: I put TCPMP on my Treo too. It plays DIVX. I put a 230MB episode of Entourage on the SD card and stuck it in. Wow is that amazing. It works great. I guess I need to buy some 1GB SD cards now.