Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Better Bluetooth File Exchange
Much as I love my darling new telephone, extracting photographs from it is a bind. This is thanks to Bluetooth File Exchange for OS X, which lacks even the most basic features. There’s no way to preview files, no way to select multiple files for transfer, no information about files save for their name (on the t610 all are unhelpfully named Picture(1).jpg, Picture(2).jpg and so on), no way to delete files on the ‘phone. In short, there’s no way to do any of the things you might reasonably expect to be able to do.
I’m not the only one frustrated by these shortcomings, so I’m pinging the LazyWeb with this post, in the hope that someone will make, or already has made, a superior alternative application.
kinda unrelated but any opinion on those Blackberries that keep popping up in assorted hip hop videos. http://www.blackberry.net if you fancy a looksee.
Posted by g.ape at 2pm on 11.09.03
Aye, been sort of vaguely drooling in their direction for quite some time now, but I don’t know much about them… think they’re big in America because folk there don’t dig SMS, and so use Blackberries for quick emailing. Silly Americans. Also have vague impression that geeks are abandoning them in favour of T610s and P800s…
Cons: lack of a built in camera/seem to remember reading about weird proprietary software thing means service providers can delete third party apps remotely/not available in the uk yet (?)
Pros: always online/email/look pretty cool/full-ish keyboard
They seem to be an obligatory tech-bling trope on MTV Base, don’t they?
Posted by Jack at 3pm on 11.09.03
Oop, I might be confusing Blackberry with SideKick… or are they the same? Or what? Help!
Posted by Jack at 3pm on 11.09.03
http://www.hotmail.com
Posted by Anonymous at 3pm on 21.09.03
Eh? Strange trackback, to be sure. Don’t tell me Hotmail are in the comment-spamming business now…
Posted by Jack at 4pm on 21.09.03
thanks for your site and keep it up.
Posted by mms at 12pm on 16.01.04
Nokia Collector might be what you want. Finally, delete photos on the phone from the computer. Shame about the on-disk layout, but it’s no worse than iPhoto, if you want to look at it that way.
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,67269,00.html
Posted by paul mison at 10am on 01.12.04
Thanks for the tip Paul - saw it on 2lmc as well - but it doesn’t seem to like my 7610 much, only letting me see/delete/synch stuff that’s in the Inbox, which is next to no use. (Works better with my old t610, funnily enough, though again not much use to me.)
Posted by Jack Mottram at 12pm on 01.12.04
That sucks, you’d think that a company as big as apple could spare some time to write a decent bluetooth file transfer utility… just write a wrapper so that you can mount and browse your bluetooth phone in the finder!
Stuff like this makes me say that apple dont suck less then microsoft… they just suck in different ways.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by rolf at 1am on 05.05.08
Thankfully, in the five years since I wrote this post, Apple have sorted out all those problems.
Posted by Jack Mottram at 8pm on 08.05.08