[ale] Kyocera K323 phone, Bluetooth, and LInux

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 12:47:18 EST 2007


On 1/20/07, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> > > By any chance has someone managed to get a Verizon Kyocera K323 phone
> > > to file-share via Bluetooth with a Linux box?
> >
> > I got my Verizon LG8100 to do it with BitPim..
>
> Details, please!
>
> For comparison, I'm running FC4.  I can get the devices to see each
> other, but the
> phone keeps giving a "device type not supported" which is making me
> think it's a crippled unit, or that I've misconfigured something...


...and a little bit of research reveals that Verizon does indeed cripple the BT
functions of their phones, but that there may be some legal challenge to this.

Still, I am interested in how you got your phone working with BitPim....



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