OK, I finally bought the bullet and moved from Virgin Mobile pay by the minute to T-Mobile. Now I have this cool Samsung t619 phone which is bluetooth compatible and has an MP3 player…which is pretty cool except the manual doesn’t really explain how to get MP3s to the phone.
Looking at Samsung’s website, it mentioned using a USB bluetooth adapter to send MP3s to my phone, but I’m not sure what all I need.
Do I only need the USB bluetooth adapter? I don’t need a bluetooth headset, too, right? I’m not a fan of those headsets…too cyborgian for my tastes, but having MP3s to listen to on the bus sounds fun and a good way to add some ITM time to my life.
I’ve searched the net…but my best tech advice has come from C&F!
All you need is the bluetooth adapter. It’s probably better to get it from a computer shop instead of samsung as well, it’ll be cheaper. Over here you can get them for £15 so because we always get ripped off I imagine they charge about $10-$15 for them in the US.
Once you’ve got the adapter and plugged it in you can download software from the Samsung’s funclub site (https://sfc.moviso.com/index.jsp) to send the files to your phone.
I currently have a nintendo WiFi USB adapter on my computer. I might some online sleuthing and see if this thing is really a bluetooth product. I seem to recall seeing something on a techie board that with a certain driver it will work with other wifi equipment…
But that leads to my next question - does Wifi = bluetooth or are they different protocols/systems?
They are both different wireless protocols. Generally only high spec smartphones (which looking at your phone online, it isn’t) will have wifi access. So you’ll need to buy the USB bluetooth adapter.
You could probably also buy a data cable from Samsung but they usually cost around the same and if you buy a new phone it may not fit, so you’re better off with the bluetooth as it should work for almost all phones these days.
Eric, I’ve had the Samsung/T-Mobile T-809 for about a year myself (very similar phone) and love mine. The video quality is remarkable to say the least. I’ve got a clip of David Power playing a set of reels from last summer that drops jaws when I play it for friends!
As far as data transfer, your phone should have come with a data cable and CD for some software for your computer. You can conceivably do it with a bluetooth connection, but I imagine it would be insanely slow for all but the smallest files. I’d check with your T-Mob. dealer and see what they can do for you if you don’t have the cable already. It plugs into a USB port on your computer.
My bro in law just bought one from Tmob, and his came with a data cable. he ordered it directly from them, tho, so that might make a difference, I dunno and YMMV
Jeeze - Bought, bit…that’s what I get for typing when I’m over-tired!
My charger does use a USB port, it’s labelled as such on the phone, but there are no instructions on the Samsung website for using it - only instructions on how to use Bluetooth to transfer data/files between the phone and the computer. I do have a USB extension cable that will plug in nicely between the two, but I didn’t want to cause my phone to freak out or anything.
I wonder if I can download the file Chrisoff mentions and try plugging in the cable and see what happens…then again, maybe I should contact T-mobile first to be safe.
However, looking at the phone’s options the only ways to send a photo are by picture message or bluetooth.
The phone’s video capabilities and camara are really good. It’s supposedly a 1.3 MP camera with all sorts of auto-adjustments (which you can manually play with) for light, ISO, etc. I’ve not messed with the settings, but the pictures are good.
Recorded sounds (from my session) have been good, too - that really surprised me - the sound is better than my small dictation tape recorder.
With 21 MB of memory, I’m sure I can’t hold that much music, but a bit would be nice.
The cable connection requires some software for your computer to recognize the phone - basically as an external drive. You can also load stuff onto and off of your memory card and transfer it that way. The software is available from the Samsung site I imagine. Mine is called: Samsung PC Studio 3
