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Connect to a Bluetooth Phone in Linux
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 2:45 AM on December 12, 2007
Ars Technica's Open.Ended blog has a nice walkthrough up detailing how one editor got his Ubuntu system and a Bluetooth cell phone from Verizon hooked up and happy. The first segment is somewhat Ubuntu-specific, but if you can get your phone and computer paired in any Linux distribution, you can follow the rest of the guide on using BitPim. Not all phones and computers will play nice, of course, but even the notoriously restrictive Verizon phone can be stuffed with MP3 ringtones, videos and the like. If you just want to back up your contacts, you could check out Yahoo Mobile.
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Steven.geek
Posted 11:04 AM 11/12/07
Bookmarked. However, I'd like to point out that many older phones, including my phone, a VX8100 (LG, Verizon), does not support direct filesystem access through Nautilus; I had to use BitPim. A good way to tell if this is so is to, after pairing the phone, view the Bluetooth Preferences and see if the lock icon is present next to the phone.
Steven.geek
Steven.geek
Posted 6:29 PM 11/12/07
No, no, never mind. I missed the part about installing gnome-vfs-obexftp. Hmph. lol
Steven.geek