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Stargate2006
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MikeB
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| DennisN wrote: | | How true is this? I have a new very expensive blah, blah, blah laptop, bluetooth enabled and I can pass files to my phone from it, without question or permission. I did precisely that the other day whilst sitting in the garage waiting for my van to be serviced - passed over a 4Mb MP3 without taking the phone out of my pocket. Whilst doing so, I noticed that my laptop had also found another bluetoooth phone in the vicinity. Although consumed by curiosity, I did nothing as it would have been very naughty. |
When you connected your nice shiny Mac to the Phone you would have been asked to authorise it. I do this with my phones. This means that whenever you connect to the phone it doesnt ask if you want to allow the connection.
I have one of my phones unauthorised and it is a real pain when I try to connect, especially if the phone is in the boot of the car...
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DennisN
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| Stargate2006 wrote: | | I will get a Apple Mac computer shorter, Maybe I will hear from you to delivery the depatch to my door from your white van DennisN and come in to have a nice cup of tea to resting a while and long story gloom chat abt etc :P |
I don't think so Stargate - if you get it from PC World, I think their Mac computers are delivered by Parceline (the green vans) and I don't do deliveries for them. 
| MikeB wrote: | | I have one of my phones ... in the boot of the car. |
It's alright for you folk with lots of phones isn't it? I only have one, so it lives in my pocket (or on the windscreen mount). I feel honoured to know somebody with enough phones to have some in the car boot. I won the Euromillions last night but not enough to get even one more phone. But if I win the England lottery tonight, big time, I'll get a dozen phones (and keep them in the boot, safe from viruses, and I'll give Stargate2006 a job when he gets the sack for be late, to get them out of the boot when I want to use one of them).
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GJF
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MikeB wrote:
| Quote: | | I have one of my phones unauthorised and it is a real pain when I try to connect, especially if the phone is in the boot of the car... |
Maybe my phones aren't authorised, i will have to check, however if that is the case pain or otherwise they will stay the same - at least i'm secure.
I don't use bluetooth too much to bother, but would rather have full control over downloadable files than be left vunerable.
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mostdom
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| GJF wrote: | MikeB wrote:
| Quote: | | I have one of my phones unauthorised and it is a real pain when I try to connect, especially if the phone is in the boot of the car... |
Maybe my phones aren't authorised, ... |
This autherising has a name you know. Terminology calls it pearing. :D
I don't know if this has anything to do with fruit but I have a sneeky feeling I've splelled it incorrecatally. 
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Stargate2006
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JockTamsonsBairn
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| mostdom wrote: | This autherising has a name you know. Terminology calls it pearing. :D
I don't know if this has anything to do with fruit but I have a sneeky feeling I've splelled it incorrecatally. |
You can have the phone peared without it being autherised. They will know about each other, but when you try to connect, you'll be asked for the passkey.
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mrg2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: Mobile phone virius - already here |
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| Something infected the developers years ago. All we wanted was a device that make phone calls and maybe text messages, now we have a very annoying thing that play heavy metal music incessantly. A virus on the phone that only allows phone calls would, IMAO be a good thing. |
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DennisN
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Well, my Apple is peared with my phone, I don't know if it has orthority for that. And I only got one number on the England lottery last night, so I've still only got one phone to virusate. Two weeks' time I'll be in Corfu not caring about it (and dreaming that when I check the numbers when we come back, I'll have won enough to have seventeen extra phones and a butler to answer them in the boot - sadly, the usual reality is we never win anything and Vera's daughter comes and picks all my gooseberries whilst we are away).
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| DennisN wrote: | | Apple is pear......gooseberries |
Is it an Orange phone per chance??   - Mike |
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Oldboy
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| mikealder wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | Apple is pear......gooseberries |
Is it an Orange phone per chance?? - Mike |
You can expect a Raspberry for that joke. 
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GJF
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| mikealder wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | Apple is pear......gooseberries |
Is it an Orange phone per chance?? - Mike |
Or do we have a Lemon using it?
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GJF
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| BGF wrote: | | mostdom wrote: | This autherising has a name you know. Terminology calls it pearing. :D
I don't know if this has anything to do with fruit but I have a sneeky feeling I've splelled it incorrecatally. |
You can have the phone peared without it being autherised. They will know about each other, but when you try to connect, you'll be asked for the passkey. |
That's how my phone is, and with all this virus talk it's staying that way!
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bettyboo
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| Not that I've got anything of real interest on my phone but surely if you dont name your phone it wont be discovered. Not that well up on things like this but when I tried to find my friends phone (with her knowledge) I couldnt as she hadnt named it. |
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mostdom
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| bettyboo wrote: | | ...I couldnt as she hadnt named it... |
Odd! Normally the phone it setup with a default name, mostly something to do with the phone itself. Nokia blah, blah. When at work I can look at my bluetooth list and see all sorts of standard fruit to connect with, whether they know it or not.
Did you turn it on first? :D
Edit: oh and welcome to the forum!
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