is it me or does anyone else feel that the bluetooth in sony laptops is next to USELESS? it doesn’t have network acess profiles, no dial up networking, only a slow, useless “file push” and “serial connection” for which I have not found a use….......in fact I’m using a tecom bt3030 dongle to provide network sharing functionality to my tr1mp right now…....

I have a Vaio SRX41P with bluetooth. I specifically wanted a model with bluetooth for the sole purpose of using it to communicate with my cellphone (an Ericsson T68i) to be able to dial-up with my service provider when traveling (for E-mail). It works very well.
I used infrared for this in the past but aligning the infrared eyes was too cumbersome. Bluetooth works much better and I can even leave my cellphone in my pocket.

I’m currently looking for a successor to my two year old SRX because it’s completely worn out (damn, why don’t they make ‘m anymore, I would buy the exact same model in an instance if it were still available).
Anyway, one of my “must have” requirements is again: bluetooth

I wish my TR1 had BT built in, I really enjoy the simple connectivity.  Ill give you some scenarios.  Keep in mind that (in my opinion) the real joy comes in having a series of BT devices that interconnect with one another.  Just having a laptop by itself is, as you say, pretty much useless.

I use my TR1 as my “baseline” contacts station for Office to keep all my client contacts up to date.  With the T610 (via the Sony Bt dongle), I conntect via bluetooth and the XTND Connect software that came with the T610 to port over all my contacts to the phone.  This includes not only phones for home, work, cell and fax, but also email addresses.  This saves me loads of punching in time and keeps all the contacts on the same level.

Also, when I dont have my digital camera, I can snap a photo and send it over to the computer and free up the phones memory. 

I have T Mobile and I subscribe to the $20/mo internet access thingy.  I use my T610 to connect (56k) via BT to the TR1.  Although not the fastest connection, its a real joy in a pinch. 

In other BT realms, I use the SE HBH-60 BT Earpiece with the T610.  After fumbliing with driving with cell phones, then corded earpieces and the like… I think BT earpieces are the safest thing going.

I used to have the Sony CLIE TEG-50? that had BT but no wireless or SD/CF slot so I sold it. 

I am waiting for the next gen phone/pda/camera with WiFi/BT/CF/SD/MS with GPS, blah blah blah…...

The closest thing today is that new P900 but im sure its $$$$$.

I’ve got a P900 and it’s an amazing phone. Your right it’s the best out there now, there is a few things I’d change if I could but overall I’m extremely happy with it.

I’ve got a 128MB Duo for it, loads of songs so I can listen to them on the odd occasion I need an MP3 type device (Not enough to make getting an iPod worthwhile). Also it takes MP3 Pro format which keeps file size down.

I have an episode of South Park on there which I change on occasions to watch if I’m stuck some place.

Can read WAP/PDA and full net pages on it quite easily.

I have Wayfinder which helps on my job.

Full MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM support with various apps.

It multitasks really quite nicely. Say your writing an e-mail while listening to songs and you get an incoming call. It’ll pause your music, ask you if you want to answer. If you answer then it’ll say your e-mail to the draft folder where you can get it back up once the call is done.

And Lemmings, what more could you want? I’d be lost without it.