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RIM Crippling BlackBerry Bluetooth In OS Upgrades?

Posted by on Dec 26, 2006 | One Comment

Alex King writes:

I organized a bounty for the creation of a “BlackBerry as a modem” solution for Mac OS X earlier this year. The resulting product (Pulse, from Brain Murmurs) is a solution that allows you to use your BlackBerry as a standard Bluetooth modem. It works great on both Windows and Mac.

Current problem:

The Pulse solution doesn’t run as fast as it should.

Brain Murmurs did a bunch of testing and working with its users and found the problem: RIM has crippled the Bluetooth speeds in recent OS upgrades.

What I want to know is this: is this a “mistake” on RIM’s side that will be fixed? Or did it do this on purpose for some reason?

[tags]RIM, BlackBerry, Bluetooth, OS upgrade, Pulse, Brain Murmurs[/tags]

  • Sergio

    I can’t seem to get my new Blackberry 8320 Curve to link up its bluetooth with any bluetooth device. The handheld is recognizing the devices and lists them for selection. But when it asks to enter a numeric PIN, and I do according to the one given by the device provider – usually the default of 0000, my handled says it can’t establish the link and do I want to try again. This happens everytime no mater what the device I am trying to connect. I have not been successful once on linking a bluetooth connection. Please advise if I need to update any software (e.g. bluetooth or other). I am running the latest version of desktop and handheld software. Don’t know where else to turn.