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Subject: 
Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:55:26 GMT
Original-From: 
steve <sjbaker1@=spamcake=airmail.net>
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Rob Antonishen wrote:
> On 1/9/06, Brian Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> > bad. And I *love* the idea of perhaps building a robot that a bystander could
> > interat with via their cell phones :-). The question there, as somebody else
> 
> 
> 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 headsets.  Can't even use them for
> address book sync with a PC.

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.

> This tells me that the likelihood of a NXT bot controlled by a
> cellphone is NILL.

Well, not NIL - but less likely than perhaps you might like.

However, it's gonna be useful for having robots talk back to
a PC or to each other.  That's good enough for me.



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  Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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