When I bought my MacBook, Bluetooth was a feature I thought I could’ve left behind, not having a slick enough phone or PDA that could wirelessly talk to the computer. Over the last few months, though, I’ve found that it definitely has its uses.
The first was for hooking up a mouse to the laptop; wireless mice are all the rage, but I couldn’t see marring the MacBook’s clean lines with a dongle for a wireless mouse. A Bluetooth mouse easily solved the problem, though it does occasionally lose sync with the computer.
More impressive was how well it worked with my new Motorola RAZR phone. After I set it up as a new device, the Mac popped up iSync to send over contacts and calendar items. I setup a “Cell” group in Address Book to transfer and that was it; no cables, no lame vendor software, no cajoling Verizon to load them from an old phone. The only slightly goofy part was it assigned speed dials in alphabetical order, which took a little effort to sort out. Also, while Verizon didn’t totally neuter the phone, they do seem to have turned off the ability to transfer for files (photos, ringtones, etc.).
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