[Cialug] OT: Looking for a good verizon phone for my non-geek loved one

Nathan Stien nathanism at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 15:55:47 CST 2008


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com> wrote:
> Nathan Stien wrote:
> >   - Would be nice if it had bluetooth OBEX for getting custom
> > ringtones, wallpapers, and phonebook entries in and out.
>
> error! verizon does not sell phones that allow this. they only sell them
> with the bluetooth headset "type" capability. (not sure on the technical
> aspects of this, but i have never seen a workable hack for it.

I have a Motorola e815 I bought from Verizon that has OBEX, and I
freely transfer files to and from it all the time.  But I had to do a
hack to enable it.

- Nathan


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