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RE: Re: OT Mobile Phone Advice


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Re: OT Mobile Phone Advice
  • From: "Gerard McGovern" <stuff@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:34:39 +0100
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> > You can't because Nokia are big headed enough to think they
> can just
> > bulldoze any industry standard because they have the biggest
market
> > share.
>
> Well, you may be right on this one, but did you possibly
> consider it may be the cheaper accessories don't actually
> fully comply to the standards ???
> They do help to set the standards after all.
> I have worked for Ericcson in the past too and know that they
> are more tolerent as they allow for a bit more flexibility in
> whether the protocol is followed fully. This is also why they
> have problems with lost links more often.
> So which is worse ???

Problems are slightly different to ruining the Bluetooth standard. Take the
6310 again as an example. You can not use that phone on the PC via
Bluetooth
unless you use Nokia's drivers. That goes totally against the idea of
Bluetooth.

>From my experience, Sony Ericsson are slightly more anal about
following
standards, hence why you can't send a text message from Line 2 (although
you
can reply).

Either way, Nokia have lost the plot :-)

G



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