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Bluetooth Help
Concepts
About Bluetooth
About Bluetooth modes
About bonds
How To
Turning on and off Bluetooth
Making your device
discoverable
Beaming information with
Bluetooth
Receiving a Bluetooth beam
Using a Bluetooth phone as a
modem
Bonding with other devices
About Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology.
Devices with Bluetooth capabilities can exchange information over a
distance of about 10 meters (30 feet) without requiring a physical
connection.
Unlike infrared, you don’t need to line up the devices to beam
information with Bluetooth. The devices only need to be within a range
of about 10 meters. You can even beam information to a device in a
different room, as long as it’s within range.
Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 software allows you to use Bluetooth in the
following ways:
Beam information, such as files, appointments, tasks, and contact
cards, between devices that have Bluetooth capabilities. For
example, if you and a co-worker each have a device with Bluetooth,
