How To: Get The Most Out Of Your BlackBerry's Bluetooth

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How To: Get The Most Out Of Your BlackBerry's Bluetooth

Posted by The Editor: Tiana Cline Monday, 23 August 2010

Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology built into your BlackBerry smartphone, lets you connect your smartphone to Bluetooth devices like wireless headsets, hands-free car kits, the BlackBerry Music Gateway, or the BlackBerry Presenter. Connecting to a Bluetooth device is generally easy and automatic.

Follow these tips to get started.

How to set up Bluetooth connection:

To connect your BlackBerry smartphone to a Bluetooth device, you must:

Step 1: Turn on Bluetooth technology on your BlackBerry smartphone and the Bluetooth device
Step 2: Pair the two devices. Pairing establishes a relationship between your BlackBerry smartphone and the device; it usually needs to be done only once.
Step 3: Connect to a paired Bluetooth-enabled device. After you have paired the two devices, you can then connect to the Bluetooth device when it is within range of your BlackBerry smartphone (a typical range is within approximately 32 feet/10 meters).

Step 1: Turn on Bluetooth technology: On the Home screen of your BlackBerry smartphone, click the Manage Connections icon. Select the Bluetooth check box. To power on the Bluetooth device, follow the instructions that came with it.

Step 2: Pair with the Bluetooth device: On the Home screen, click the Manage Connections icon. Click Set Up Bluetooth. Click Search. In the search results, click the Bluetooth device to which you wish to connect.

If necessary, perform one of the following actions:

If the Bluetooth device does not have a keyboard (for example, a headset), then type into your BlackBerry smartphone the pairing passkey found in the device's instructions. The passkey is most often a numeric or alpha-numeric code (0000 for example).
If the Bluetooth device has a keyboard (for example, a laptop), type a pairing passkey of your own choosing on both devices.

Step 3: Connect to a paired Bluetooth enabled device: On the Home screen, click the Manage Connections icon. Click Bluetooth Options. Highlight the Bluetooth device. Press the Menu key. Click Connect.

It really is that simple.

The Editor: Tiana Cline

Tiana's post-modern love of literature, Bollywood, Korean stationery and gourmet (home) cooking are only a distraction to her Xbox... and her 3DS... and her Wii. A videogame lobbyist in the making, during the day Tiana is a magazine editor who has fallen head-over-heels for technology and deeply-in-like with deadlines. It’s been said that she can stop publishing pandemonium with one stern look. Tiana is a virgo in brogues, and the editor of GirlGuides.

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