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I agree[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by Anonymous User on Thu Sep 23, 2004 at 04:04:04 PM PDT

I totally agree. I have been using a little origo bluetooth dongle, and by some strange twist of fate lost my drivers cd a few days before i was forced to wipe my hard disk. So I decided to use the glorious internet in order to try and find those drivers.

Well the official site obviously cares about its consumers loads, appearing to not bother putting any drivers up at all, let alone updated ones, but eventually found a forum thread on google (how i found this thread as well) which gave a link to the software (which, strangely enough, WAS actually hosted on the official site).

So a smile crept on my face as i saw the familiar icon in the corner... only to get the message that i don't have the license for that particular piece of hardware.

What I can't understand, as you said i believe, is WHY it includes this DRM in the first place, as only people with bluetooth devices would ever need it, and if the device you own didn't come with the software then chances are that widcomm wouldn't work with it anyway!

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bluetooth license a joke ??[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Wed Nov 10, 2004 at 12:52:11 AM PDT

i have same problem and if my phone didnt have bluetooth i would have given up on this long ago. why make a technology so hard to use that nobody who has it would recommend it to their friends ? they could go so far if they made it user friendly/ idiot proof. or if they made it so it could auto detect your hardware and provide the relevant license. i for 1 will be eagerly awaiting an alternative technology and tell belkin where to stick their dongle. (maybe thats why they made it that shape) :( wish i had just got a cable instead right now. but thought i could do so much more if i had bluetooth on my comp.i wont be buying any more bluetooth stuff. or any more belkin products

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Holding bluetooth back[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Mon Jan 24, 2005 at 11:09:19 PM PDT

Yes, this widcomm policy of holding back drivers that might fix problems just holds bluetooth back. Bluetooth is hard enough to get working right, this just makes it worse. It really makes me want to give up on bluetooth as a solution.

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