iPhone sync to my laptop over bluetooth

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iPhone sync to my laptop over bluetooth

I am trying to pair up my laptop with my iphone. But it won't let me do that. It paired only once and then now I don't think that it is working anymore.

I have HP tablet tx2000 laptop with 64 bit Vista Home Premium installed. I have iphone 3G with 3.0 OS installed on that.

Also, I was wondering if I can connect my iPhone to my laptop through blue tooth and then will my itune recognize it? It will be nice if I don't have to physically connect the iPhone every time but still I can sync it with my iTunes.

Let me know if you guys know anything about my situation.

Thanks.

tx2000, Windows Vista, HP Tablet

Posted on Jul 14, 2009 11:15 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 14, 2009 11:16 AM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

No, you cannot. The iPhone currently only supports phone calls and music over Bluetooth, not file transfer. You need to use the USB cable to sync with iTunes.

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Answer 2

Jul 14, 2009 11:19 AM in response to neuroanatomist

Thanks for your answer.

Can you tell me how can I pair up my iphone with my laptop? I paired it once for file transfer (transferring my pictures), but now it is not recognizing in my iPhone. My iPhone can recognize my laptop really well but when I want to transfer a pic, I am having the same problem. It says that those are not paired up.

What should I do? Any suggestions?

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Answer 3

roaminggnome

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Jul 14, 2009 11:21 AM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

The iphone does not transfer pics or any other file via bluetooth.

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Answer 4

Jul 14, 2009 11:25 AM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

Looks like Apple needs to do lot of work in their blue tooth category. They say that it comes with blue tooth but if it can't do photo transfer from iphone->Laptop or vice versa then its useless. As it can't do anything other than connecting headset at this time 😟.

I hope Apple is dedicated to take input of customers like me to make their product better.

Thanks,

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Answer 5

Cubus25

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Jul 14, 2009 2:49 PM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

The amount of data iTunes would transfer to the iPhone would be huge.

If you are planning on using the blue tooth sync to transfer photos I assume you would want to sync it with iTunes as well (using blue tooth). The purpose of using the USB cable is to make sure the phone dose not die during the data transfer (plus it's faster).

Blue tooth uses quite a bit of the battery power during telephone calls. I have a feeling if you were doing this (if this feature was available on the iPhone) your next post would be blasting the battery life while using the blue tooth feature.

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Answer 6

Jul 14, 2009 2:51 PM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

Bhavin Gandhi wrote:
I hope Apple is dedicated to take input of customers like me to make their product better.

they do ... leave your feedback at http://apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Answer 7

Tamara

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Jul 15, 2009 4:51 AM in response to Bhavin Gandhi

You can send feedback - http://apple.com/feedback

Syncing photos via bluetooth would take forever. My old Treo could do this and I never bothered because I didn't have half the day to wait for bluetooth file transfer.

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