[Gllug] OT: mobile 3g + bluetooth

[Joel Bernstein]

On 29 May 2009, at 16:57, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Thanks for the responses so far. I've noticed that some phones have  
> wi-fi
> instead of bluetooth - that would be fine for my purposes as well. Is
> there any reason to prefer bluetooth over wi-fi ?

It's pretty rare to be able to use the phone to share its 3G internet  
connection via Wifi, i.e. with the phone acting as a router/AP. You  
*can* get 3rd-party apps for some smartphones to do this though. I  
believe wifi is more commonly used to give the phone internet access.

That is, Bluetooth is usually used to get a data connection between  
phone and laptop, while wifi is commonly used to make the connection  
between phone and home/office internet connection.

Did that make any sense?

/joel
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