NO bluetooth ! on US version

[puma1]

It's 99,95% sure.... the only Clies with Bluetooth will be the European ones.

It's written in French in the following link... I am the only one aware of it? Thank god I live in France.... for once I'm proud.


"nous serons les seuls à bénéficier du Bluetooth inside"

http://www.clieandmac.com/03tests/Clies/PEG_NX73/prez_NX73.html

[Unregistered]

can we just buy a european one then, it would cost a bit more. is there any other difference in the os, if you buy a uk model?

[bobes]

If no bluetooth, then the prices seems a bit much.

[junglyboy]

i guess my NX70V gets to stay...

[n2ifp]

Me too, I wasn't really interested in Bluetooth, but the new NX's really haven't much to offer over the NX 70.

[rob_squared]

This is depressing, but not really important to me considering I already have the BT MS.

[Gravity]

So, i am hearing "YES BT" - "NO BT" in the same forum, well which is it???

y'all need to make up your minds :)

[OcellNuri]

I dont' think they know anything about the US release yet. At least, I hope they don't! :(

[n2ifp]

Is there that many people wanting to use Bluetooth phones?

[Unregistered]

yes

[aryaba]

Got the Nokia 3650 phone...with BT in anticipation of the new Sony's having BT...PLEASE have BT in the US version.

[OcellNuri]

Yup... me too... I plan on grabbing the Sony T608 when it comes out. Plus I want Bluetooth GPS. I got to play with it on a Tungsten... and on man I want it! I miss my GPS Springboard for my Visor so much.

[JwY]

bt is nice especially when i have a bt dongle

[cbulock]

This is kinda bummin'. I was thinking of getting a Nokia 3650 since T-Mobile is offering unlimited GPRS of only $20 a month. But I want a Hi-res+ Clie with Bluetooth to use with it to surf and the BT MS won't cut it. I guess I can wait another couple of months for a US NX with BT.

[h_scott]

Bluetooth doesn't cut it for me. I don't want to juggle two devices when it can be put into one, and don't want a phone that just happens to have some PDA functions. My US $$$ will go immediately to a Clie with GSM / GPRS built in. I don't care about the form factor or the camera. I just want the full capability of Clie with true wireless e-mail.

[OcellNuri]

h_scott... have you seen the Treo600? Sounds like it has what you've been looking for. The only thing you would be missing from the Sony units is Hires+ and the built in camera.

[Rick 098]

I pearsonally dont care about bluetooth.

[n2ifp]

Originally posted by cbulock
This is kinda bummin'. I was thinking of getting a Nokia 3650 since T-Mobile is offering unlimited GPRS of only $20 a month. But I want a Hi-res+ Clie with Bluetooth to use with it to surf and the BT MS won't cut it. I guess I can wait another couple of months for a US NX with BT.

Will the Nokia work with the Clie's Bluetooth? Some have had no success with it, only the SE T68i. Make sure it can work if you decide to go that route.

[PDAJah]

Originally posted by h_scott
I don't care about the form factor or the camera. I just want the full capability of Clie with true wireless e-mail.

Full connectivity would include GSM/GPRS (where there is no WiFi), WiFi (for where there are WiFi points) and BT (to connect to other devices). Also, it seems to me that the benefit of the Clie range is the higher resolutions and accessories. These allow me to use my Clie as a laptop replacement (e.g. Belkin G700 keyboard). However, I think Smartphones seem, at the moment, to be more like the idea behind the early PDAs, that is, a way of keeping a copy of the most important documents from your desktop / laptop on your Smartphone. Having said all that, if Quick Office were available for the Sony Ericsson P800 (with a resolution only a little lower than the iPaqs at 208x320) and a WiFi MS card could be used in the planned P800 MS jacket (see http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=P800_MSEXP), you'd be very close a very complete device.

[cbulock]

Originally posted by n2ifp


Will the Nokia work with the Clie's Bluetooth? Some have had no success with it, only the SE T68i. Make sure it can work if you decide to go that route.

Yeah, I was worried about that at first, but then I seen this (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16125) thread and it looks like it works fine for everything except getting SMS messages on the Clie.