Possibly but then again each mac for a number of years has had bluetooth as standard so I dont really see it.
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Possibly but then again each mac for a number of years has had bluetooth as standard so I dont really see it.
What no Bluetooth lol
You are at school in the playground with your new lphone, all the other kids are amazed! WOW love that picture, can you send me it please.
Hmm sorry don't blue tooth, then the other kid says " my phone was free with the 5 gallon of petrol my father got from the petrol station, and it video's too"
Hoops!!! lets slink off to a corner, lets pretend we never said that, but hey! lets show em the lighter in apps (maybey they smoke).
I don't need bluetooth, but then again l dont need a lighter on my Phone too.
You are at school in the playground with your new lphone, all the other kids are amazed! WOW love that picture, can you send me it please.
Hmm sorry don't blue tooth, then the other kid says " my phone was free with the 5 gallon of petrol my father got from the petrol station, and it video's too"
Hoops!!! lets slink off to a corner, lets pretend we never said that, but hey! lets show em the lighter in apps (maybey they smoke).
I don't need bluetooth, but then again l dont need a lighter on my Phone too.
perhaps that old fad email?
Whats the big deal with sending pictures via Bluetooth? It seems quite obvious to me that there is not only an alternative but a better solution to all that 'disoverable / partly descoverable' "can you see my phone yet" "no but I see something bigfish69" malarkie of Bluetooth. To send a picture, send an email. If they have a phone worth talking about (and let's face it if they don't why are you talking to them in the first place) their phone will be able to view the email with the picture. It's also available on their computer, or the webbased email. Go even further by uploading your pictures to facebook or other social sites to share your pictures or if you really want to keep it in the apple family upload to mobile me.
Apple didn't miss a trick, they see Bluetooth sharing files as dumb as I do. Frankly, I'm glad those days are over.
Whats the big deal with sending pictures via Bluetooth? It seems quite obvious to me that there is not only an alternative but a better solution to all that 'disoverable / partly descoverable' "can you see my phone yet" "no but I see something bigfish69" malarkie of Bluetooth. To send a picture, send an email. If they have a phone worth talking about (and let's face it if they don't why are you talking to them in the first place) their phone will be able to view the email with the picture. It's also available on their computer, or the webbased email. Go even further by uploading your pictures to facebook or other social sites to share your pictures or if you really want to keep it in the apple family upload to mobile me.
Apple didn't miss a trick, they see Bluetooth sharing files as dumb as I do. Frankly, I'm glad those days are over.
Exactly.
I'm new to the iphone and apple in general, but I'm quickly learning that you don't tell apple what you want/need, apple tells you what you want/need. Alot of times their way is in fact "better," but their attitude about it is still a little annoying.
It's not always a bad thing, but it does seem to be how it works.
Bluetooth for me is important, and it's making me take a step back to buy and iphone.I use pre-paid card, in my country the contract and data plans are mostly used by companies only and data plans for the iphone are just pathetic.
So, i was going to buy a pay n go iphone, so i can use my pre-paid.
I always known since the first iphone about the bluetooth, and i thought they solve this with this new iphone, but they don't. it look like they don't really care about what we(costumers) want, and i think what costumer want is what they should try to work on...
Some of you suggested send the picture by email, but it's not really that simple, like for me, without a data plan i would have to pay( a lot) for a e-mail to send a picture. why should i pay to send i picture if i have bluetooth and any cheap phone can do it?
And if the other person phone can't receive e-mail?(well almost every phone can, but some people don't use email on their phone so they don't bother configuring the phone for that)
And, even if i was in a data plan, the other person is not and i want a photo that he/she have? It's not fair that he/she has to pay when it's my phone that is limited?
Don't get my wrong, im not an iphone hater, i really like the iphone and i would like to get one, but we all know it has it's limitations, and some of those limitations are such basic things that every cheap phone have that are not acceptable...
I don't agree that we should pay for an app to do file transfer by bluetooth( if one comes out, what i doubt a bit...) but if it appears one, i would pay for it(that's how much i wan't an iphone...).
Sorry for the long post.
So, i was going to buy a pay n go iphone, so i can use my pre-paid.
I always known since the first iphone about the bluetooth, and i thought they solve this with this new iphone, but they don't. it look like they don't really care about what we(costumers) want, and i think what costumer want is what they should try to work on...
Some of you suggested send the picture by email, but it's not really that simple, like for me, without a data plan i would have to pay( a lot) for a e-mail to send a picture. why should i pay to send i picture if i have bluetooth and any cheap phone can do it?
And if the other person phone can't receive e-mail?(well almost every phone can, but some people don't use email on their phone so they don't bother configuring the phone for that)
And, even if i was in a data plan, the other person is not and i want a photo that he/she have? It's not fair that he/she has to pay when it's my phone that is limited?
Don't get my wrong, im not an iphone hater, i really like the iphone and i would like to get one, but we all know it has it's limitations, and some of those limitations are such basic things that every cheap phone have that are not acceptable...
I don't agree that we should pay for an app to do file transfer by bluetooth( if one comes out, what i doubt a bit...) but if it appears one, i would pay for it(that's how much i wan't an iphone...).
Sorry for the long post.
I'm my years of having Bluetooth-enabled camera phones, I think I've used this feature twice, so it's not a big deal to me. Similarly, there have only been a couple instances where I've sent someone my contact info via Bluetooth. However, I just tried to do just that other day and was disappointed to find I couldn't do it. Oh well. I still enjoy virtually everything else about the phone.
I would love to be able to share contacts over the air like I could with my Newton.
sending contact's data via Bluetooth, or any other means like email I think is quite important and it's not on the iPhone, which is a shame. Sending pictures over Bluetooth still is a bit 2001 to me for the reasons I've mentioned above. In reply to the comment on sending pictures via email costing money if the network doesn't have a suitable data plan is a fair point to some extent, but the amount of data transfered is neglagable, plus you could also use WiFi. As for MMS, I knew this would be a dead horse when the networks thought they could charge 50p a shot.
Yes Please DO
It isn't the free market saying they don't want to be able to recieve or send files via bluetooth.... It's people assuming that a modern phone (3GS) released in 2009 .... can do something that nearly every basic cheapo phone can do. It's not an unreasonable assumption.
It is an industry standard ... It's expected in any phone .... especially a premium phone like the iPhone.... And SO simple and cheap for Apple to add.
Having bought a 3Gs ... having read that the iPhone can now send pictures (they meant by MMS ... WOW!!! what a major step forward!!!!!) ........ I am now NOT happy to find Apple have left out such basic "feature".
Apple should be aware that the flip side to the fact that their customers are "brand loyal" (and buy laptops/ipods/computers etc. because they are Apple) ... is that when an apple product lets you down so badly by missing a feature found in nearly every other phone on the market...is that their dissatisfaction is likely to spread to the whole brand......
I for one ... am now reconsidering my loyalty to Apple
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Only iPhone to iPhone. Not to any other phone or computer. Which makes it useless as anyone with an iPhone would simply email a picture.
amirite said:
Only iPhone to iPhone. Not to any other phone or computer. Which makes it useless as anyone with an iPhone would simply email a picture.
If the OP wants to exchange pictures with those who also have iPhones, then the OP can use the application called Bump, which lets you send contacts and pictures by holding the iPhone in your hand and bumping it against the receiver's hand (which also holds his/her iPhone).
Pull your head out of your asses you arrogant pricks. Just because someone wanted to know whether this was a supported feature or not doesn't give you the right to call them an idiot, moron or any of the like. FFS, bunch of children with "elitist" attitudes on this stupid site. 
...Yes you can send and receive pictures from iPhone to iPhone (as long as both phones have downloaded and are running the same App... (but not Video files...). But as the previous poster said, - if the other person has an iPhone then they could just as easy email the picture.
But it appears that Apple are blocking the ability to connect to another make of phone, otherwise the Apps could do this also.
The most downloaded bluetooth picture App actually suggests people email Apple to request "connect to computer" abilities so that they are allowed to incorporate this in their 'approved' application.
To be able to receive a picture file over bluetooth - phone to phone - (whatever the make of phone) really is a basic feature and is one that is found in pretty much every other phone with bluetooth capabilities.
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Panasonic, BlackBerry ... ALL include this feature and have done so for years.
The only thing I cannot work out is what on earth Apple are thinking by leaving it out - or indeed blocking 3rd party developers from incorporating it into iPhone Apps.
If enough people contact Apple and complain ... maybe they'll see sense.
But it appears that Apple are blocking the ability to connect to another make of phone, otherwise the Apps could do this also.
The most downloaded bluetooth picture App actually suggests people email Apple to request "connect to computer" abilities so that they are allowed to incorporate this in their 'approved' application.
To be able to receive a picture file over bluetooth - phone to phone - (whatever the make of phone) really is a basic feature and is one that is found in pretty much every other phone with bluetooth capabilities.
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Panasonic, BlackBerry ... ALL include this feature and have done so for years.
The only thing I cannot work out is what on earth Apple are thinking by leaving it out - or indeed blocking 3rd party developers from incorporating it into iPhone Apps.
If enough people contact Apple and complain ... maybe they'll see sense.
.... Another basic feature included on all other makes of phone with bluetooth capability ......
The iPhone has lacked this function for two years now. I don't think we will be seeing it anytime soon.
This just in from 9to5mac.com:
iPhone 3.1 to ship next week, offer MMS and more, AT&T hints...
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 05:46 Jonny Evans71AT&T has hinted a new version of the iPhone OS will ship later this month, iPhone Software 3.1.
The new software is likely to deliver on some of the promises made to AT&T users when iPhone 3.0 shipped, specifically MMS messaging (at last) and the capacity to engage in Bluetooth file transfers.
iPhone 3.1 will also likely offer support for any of those features weve been hearing so much rumour and speculation about, such as social networking of iTunes songs played, potentially a subscription-based streaming music service and more.
iPhone 3.1 to ship next week, offer MMS and more, AT&T hints...
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 05:46 Jonny Evans71AT&T has hinted a new version of the iPhone OS will ship later this month, iPhone Software 3.1.
The new software is likely to deliver on some of the promises made to AT&T users when iPhone 3.0 shipped, specifically MMS messaging (at last) and the capacity to engage in Bluetooth file transfers.
iPhone 3.1 will also likely offer support for any of those features weve been hearing so much rumour and speculation about, such as social networking of iTunes songs played, potentially a subscription-based streaming music service and more.
I have a question, or rather a concern when MMS comes out to the iPhone. I already have MMS enabled and Tethering along with VVM all working due to the updated carrier file, so when MMS comes out with 3.1, will that mean tethering is coming out too and i'll have to pay for it? If so 3.1 can wait for me, tethering is an extra $30 a month
If you jailbreak your iPhone you can install ibluetooth from cydia it cost Euro 3.99 and gives you full bluetooth capabilities like the phone should have.
actually its pretty pathetic that you didnt knew this from before. Actually i doubt u didnt, you just made this thread to point out this obvious exclusion from apple