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| | | (...) I keep hearing this (and reading in the official press releases) but having recently shopped for a cell phone, I can tell you that everyone available here (Ontario) that I can find has the bluetooth crippled to it will ONLY talk to bluetooth (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Yann Vernier
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| | | | | (...) Ouch, that's bad. Here in Sweden I can confirm that bluetooth phones with other features are around - for instance, my own phone can sync, and others can be used to remote control toys. Apart from the Ericsson car, I found TV output and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Kyle McDonald
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| | | | | (...) One (Verizon) of the 2 top carrier's in the US tried to cripple the bluetooth in at least one model, and it created a large PR storm. I"m not sure whether they changed their position on that model or on future models but I havne't heard as (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —steve
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| | | | | (...) That's because you can actually catch a phone virus via bluetooth (it's not very secure). My wife's phone caught one - and it was a pain to get rid of. (...) Well, not NIL - but less likely than perhaps you might like. However, it's gonna be (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Steve Hassenplug
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| | | | | (...) every place that talks about the NXT also talks about "Bluetooth technology that allows your robot to communicate with external devices such as mobile phones". (URL) Personally, I REALLY think controlling a NXT bot with a cellphone will be (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Jordan Bradford
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| | | | | | (...) Or with a GameBoy Advance with the wireless link peripheral (uses Bluetooth). It's not a common piece of hardware, but some of the newer Pokemon games come with it. I think about 15 games support it currently. Anyway, my GBA is one thing I'll (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Andrew Cross
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| | | | | | (...) That sounds pretty interesting as a GBA is a decent controller compared to celphone buttons. But, is there a programming language that covers enough celphones? This would make that project more practical for the range of impact. There is (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | (...) Probably a gear reduction, similar to the RC motor: (URL) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | (...) Blame the phone companies. (Verizon is probobly the worst offender but others are guilty too) I know of many hacks where people have re-enabled features (including such things as bluetooth address book sync and bluetooth file transfer) that (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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