Do You Sync Your PDA Phone with USB or Bluetooth?
Aside from hands-free talking on my cell phone (as long as I am within 2 feet of my phone), Bluetooth technology just hasn’t gotten me that excited. Take, for instance, syncing my PDA phone with Outlook…
Using my good ol’ USB cable, I am able to sync all my information in very short order. The same data transfer using Bluetooth takes OVER 10 times LONGER. I know PDA sync time isn’t all that important for some people, but it is for me, since this process can take over 1 hour for me with Bluetooth. It already takes around 10 minutes with the USB cradle. If I recall correctly, even my infrared transfers from computer to computer 8+ years ago would happen faster than Bluetooth transfers.
I’d really like to proven wrong and find more/better ways to use Bluetooth technology, but so far, Bluetooth has left me somewhat…well…blue.
If you happen to be using a Treo…
I had the same issue initially when I was syncing via bluetooth. Trick is to turn off conduits that you don’t really need to use. I have everything disabled except for contacts, calendar, tasks and memo. When I need to install an app I simply enable the install conduit and it automatically gets disabled after the install (since I didn’t check the “Set As Default” option when enabling it)– you can do the same for other conduits you only use once in a while.
My sync’s over bluetooth take about 30 seconds or less now and I also have syncing over my cell phone internet connection (comes in handy sometimes) and that takes about 45 seconds.
-Reid
Comment by strmph — March 11, 2008 @ 7:31 pm