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bluetooth vs cable sync?
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Posted by: rapps

How much slower is bluetooth than using a cable when hotsyncing? My syncs with bluetooth takes a few minutes and I haven't put anything on it yet!! Is a cable supposed to be much faster?

btw...this is for a treo 650

Posted by: ilvla2

The cable is much faster, bluetooth is great for transferring pics, files, video, games, contacts, for dial up networking, etc., but using it to syn is slooooooowwww, as you've found out. I would use the cable that came with the 650.

Posted by: rapps

Thanks for the quick response...this is all so new for me. One more question. How can I transfer just 1 thing and not do a whole sync? If I just want a ringtone, pic, app and nothing else to transfer...how should I do it?

Thanks!

Posted by: vawireless

depends on what you want transferred, and are you trying to transfer it from the treo 650 to your computer, or vice versa?

i've been able to transfer one picture from my treo by going into my pictures and selecting the picture, then Send from the menu, and then Bluetooth as the wireless interface.

Posted by: Jaharmi

I also noticed the Bluetooth sync is much slower than using the bundled USB cable. I'm connecting my new Cingular GSM Treo 650 to a PowerBook G4, and used Missing Sync 4.04 to perform a HotSync.

However, BT sync is much more convenient ... I've done it from an office or two away from my laptop.

I'm hoping that sync will continue to work if I switch to a Verizon Treo 650 at some point in the future. I'm a little leery based on the ambiguity of their BT support.