iPhone bluetooth issues with Mac OS X 10.4.10
June 30th, 2007 by ktula
Before i accidentally drowned my Sony Ericsson K608i, i used to be able to send SMS using OS X’s Address Book via bluetooth. It appears, quite surprisingly to me, that this feature is not supported in iPhone. When iPhone was activated for the first time, it was automatically paired up with the bluetooth-enabled Mac. I thought may be the iPhone did not pair up correctly so i removed the device configuration from my Powerbook. I then proceeded to manually pair up iPhone with my Powerbook but the last screen from the Bluetooth Mobile Phone Set Up gave a warning that “There were no supported services found on your device”.
Then i went to Address Book to try to pair it up with iPhone, so that i could send a SMS using from my Powerbook. When i clicked on the bluetooth icon in Address Book, it brought up a “Pair with a Bluetooth Device” window. Pairing up again with my iPhone did not help.
Right now, it is also not possible to use the “Browse Device” function from OS X to browse the content of iPhone.
Update 2007/07/01:
iPhone Central at MacWorld has an article on this.
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Ryan
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Yeah! I had the same issue, too. The one great thing about my SE T637 (and the reason I sent 2000 txts last month) was the immaculate integration into Address Book. I have to imagine, as this is an Apple feature, it is simply an oversight and will soon be integrated. Otherwise, that’s well, almost as bad as no iChat. Almost.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 07:25
ktula
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The phone/Address Book had been working for me in all the phones that i have owned, including the SE T68i and a SE T610. I hope, like you said, this is just an oversight. But it’s hard to believe that the ability to browse the content of a phone via bluetooth is an oversight.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 21:54