Is there any way to use bluetooth to transfer photos from iPhone 4 to non apple devices?

When I buy a Luxury Mercedes I don't ask if the Air Conditioning is included because it's OBVIOUS!

But, if later I discover it I get upset for 2 reasons:

- it's not present and ALL other cars, less and more expensive ones, have it.

- i would pay to have it: I can't have it the same.

If the only reason you and your friends use a phone is for transferring photos to other phones via Bluetooth, then maybe a cheap dumb-phone is better suited for you all.

Obviously then you'd miss out on all the other benefits an iPhone offers over other phones, but as photo transfer via Bluetooth is your priority, I guess you wouldn't miss any of the other iPhone features.

If your luxury Mercedes didn't come with air-conditioning, no other alternative is provided by the manufacturer for keeping you cool. The iPhone has many (faster) alternative methods for sharing photos. Bluetooth is slow. It's far quicker to share a photo via multiple methods (email, file sharing apps, facebook etc.) over the internet, especially given the file size of average iPhone photos these days.

In the time you've shared just one photo, with one person within 10 metres of you, over Bluetooth, I could've shared half a dozen photos with an unlimited number of people, located anywhere in the world.

I guess you're happy using 15 year old methods of file transfer. You'll be asking for a dial-up connection to the internet next!!

You are being too defensive on behalf of Apple.

Nope. I'm speaking on behalf of myself, drawing on personal experience, having used Bluetooth on dozens of phones since 2002 (Sony Ericsson T68).

Bluetooth is a very fast technology

Well, that depends on what version of Bluetooth both devices support and your definition of "very fast". Bluetooth only started becoming "fast" with v3.0 which piggybacks on WiFi frequencies to transfer data faster. Still doesn't get around the fact you have to be in physical proximity to the person you want to share a file with.

I will not reply anymore to avoid laughing of reader's.

I shouldn't have wifi available to give a file to the person located few meters from me.

doesn't matter the transfer time, I WANNA GIVE the file.

Apple removed a similar App from the store. I dunno why.

And you have been told how to "GIVE THE FILE". If the other phone is a smart phone and you both have the app "Bump", which is available for other OSs, you can transfer photos. As Julian says, and I can confirm, transferring over BT is painfully slow. Emailing or MMS is significantly faster and generally requires no fiddling.

I'm here to help apple users like myself and if you preferred Android, then by all means go for it.

It's a common knowledge that you/we are not Google customers. We are Google assets (using baits like Google+, Gmail. etc to lure us in). No businesses can survive giving out free stuff. I preferred to pay for services I use bcause good work should get paid.

My intention is not to post rude remarks, just trying to understands how the iphone works. I have always used android before and now I have an iphone from work, which is making my life very difficult as I used to connect my phone to the computer (when I'm in the office), even with my old nokia. I also used my gmail all the time but from the iphone it's not that easy to use it. I also missing the swype, which was very quick to write on the android. I'm not saying apple should do all for free, but allow people to integrate the phone a bit better. Google does not all for free, but I like the mentallity of making big users to pay more to support small users, to me this it's pretty fair.

I think apple products are masing, but the way Apple works is not helping them. The have done the same with the computers in the 80's, and many people who uses Apple everyday, only do it for ignorance, as they do not even know that something else exists, when this changes, Apple will go down, not disappering, but reducing the market share, it's a pain because they have very nice products. I'm not in favour of Androind either, nothing it's perfect, but Google has demostrated some very good ideas, and still google chrome is the best broweser, even in the iphone, so apple people should give some credits to Google too.

You are lucky to have an iPhone from work, I've to pay for it myself. I use GMail as well and I don't see why it's difficult for you? I think the iPhone is very well intregated and l like it that way, I don't want any nastiness which Android have. I just don't want extra work, I want it to just work.

Windows is known to copy Apple during the 80s/90s and most bought it because it was cheap. I also did that. I also start building my own work horses and was very good at it.

Google only good idea is search but that is slowly getting bad. Google is now the new Microsoft.

Anyway, as I've said, do whatever is good for you since this is not an opinion forum, I leave it at that.

Google is the new microsoft but a lot smarter and the products just work, like google maps, earth, docs, sketchup, picasa, talk, gmail, chrome, self driving car.....

Yes, they know nothing, you right.

Microsoft had the whole monopoly and didn't know what to do, I hope Apple can learn from other's mistakes.

My wife has the Galaxy III and I can find any nastiness, she has swype, the camera has too many options and the bluetooth works very well. she also has de 32gb micro SD card, which hasn't use it much, but it's there.

11crapple11 wrote:

My wife has the Galaxy III and I can find any nastiness, she has swype, the camera has too many options and the bluetooth works very well. she also has de 32gb micro SD card, which hasn't use it much, but it's there.

That's nice.

No one's laughing at you, not me at least. You make perfect sense. I'm not sure why people are getting weird and defensive about your question.

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To shed some light on it for everyone else -- all of the "better" methods you are suggesting require the use of data or MMS, which cost money. It is indeed strange there is not a straightforward free method to move a pic. from your phone to computer.

I saw an App called Bluetooth Photo Share in the App Store. It might work.

One useful question to ask is, 'Is there an App for that?'. Sometimes companies keep gaps in their offering so that they can be serviced (more comprehensively) by third parties.

The app with the description, "Transfer photos and/or contacts between 2 iPhones and/or iPod Touches over Bluetooth"? I've used it. It's okay, if slow (but that's a BT issue). However, it's important to note it doesn't answer the original question in this thread. It does not transfer to non-iOS devices.