Motorola Timeport 270C and Bluetooth Connectivity Kit
November 2001
Motorola Timeport 270c Digital Wireless Telephone and Bluetooth Connectivity Kit
Cutting Baby Blue Teeth
By Janet Pinkerton
Motorola's tri-band CDMA Timeport 270c is a very nice Web-browsing mobile phone, discretely positioned as an early adopter's plaything. It is the only Motorola phone compatible with Motorola Bluetooth Connectivity kit. Theoretically, one Bluetooth device should talk to another within 10 meters of each other, no matter the make or model, to support an appropriate connection between the two. The idea is to eliminate wires between mobile phone and laptop, between mobile phone and mobile phone headset, even between laptop and printer. (See this month's E-Gear What Is Bluetooth? column on page 94.) The Motorola Bluetooth Connectivity Kit gives you two tiny RF radios that can talk to each other, a Bluetooth PC accessory card modem that plugs into your laptop and a battery door cover with an embedded Bluetooth radio chipset that clips on to the back of the Timeport 270c. A Bluetooth Software Suite CD-ROM contains software to help the computer laptop talk to the Bluetooth-enabled PC Card and help the card talk to the Timeport 270c and also StarFish TrueSync for synchronizing contact and schedule information between laptop and phone.
You have to load the software and device drivers onto your laptop, get your laptop to communicate with the Motorola PC Card, configure your Internet, fax and TrueSync software to use the PC card, and then get the PC Card to discover and bond with the phone to establish the connection.
After I installed the Bluetooth software, Bluetooth Neighborhood icon appeared on my desktop to allow me to monitor and connect with Bluetooth devices within range of my laptop, listing the devices in the neighborhood, their class, their status (in range or not) and whether or not they are communicating with the computer.
I initiated a connection by dragging the dial-up network (DUN) icon onto the Motorola phone entry in the Bluetooth Neighborhood box. When prompted, I entered the same four-digit numeric code into the phone and the laptop to seal the bond between the devices.
After bonding, the computer attempts to establish a wireless network connection with the phone, and the message "0050CD1198AE Requests Local Service?" appears on my phone display. 0050CD1198AE is the Bluetooth identity of my computer laptop. I had the option to grant or deny the request. Granting it, with the punch of a soft key button on the 270c, allows the computer to talk to and use the phone.
Cutting Baby Blue Teeth
By Janet Pinkerton
Motorola's tri-band CDMA Timeport 270c is a very nice Web-browsing mobile phone, discretely positioned as an early adopter's plaything. It is the only Motorola phone compatible with Motorola Bluetooth Connectivity kit. Theoretically, one Bluetooth device should talk to another within 10 meters of each other, no matter the make or model, to support an appropriate connection between the two. The idea is to eliminate wires between mobile phone and laptop, between mobile phone and mobile phone headset, even between laptop and printer. (See this month's E-Gear What Is Bluetooth? column on page 94.) The Motorola Bluetooth Connectivity Kit gives you two tiny RF radios that can talk to each other, a Bluetooth PC accessory card modem that plugs into your laptop and a battery door cover with an embedded Bluetooth radio chipset that clips on to the back of the Timeport 270c. A Bluetooth Software Suite CD-ROM contains software to help the computer laptop talk to the Bluetooth-enabled PC Card and help the card talk to the Timeport 270c and also StarFish TrueSync for synchronizing contact and schedule information between laptop and phone.
You have to load the software and device drivers onto your laptop, get your laptop to communicate with the Motorola PC Card, configure your Internet, fax and TrueSync software to use the PC card, and then get the PC Card to discover and bond with the phone to establish the connection.
After I installed the Bluetooth software, Bluetooth Neighborhood icon appeared on my desktop to allow me to monitor and connect with Bluetooth devices within range of my laptop, listing the devices in the neighborhood, their class, their status (in range or not) and whether or not they are communicating with the computer.
I initiated a connection by dragging the dial-up network (DUN) icon onto the Motorola phone entry in the Bluetooth Neighborhood box. When prompted, I entered the same four-digit numeric code into the phone and the laptop to seal the bond between the devices.
After bonding, the computer attempts to establish a wireless network connection with the phone, and the message "0050CD1198AE Requests Local Service?" appears on my phone display. 0050CD1198AE is the Bluetooth identity of my computer laptop. I had the option to grant or deny the request. Granting it, with the punch of a soft key button on the 270c, allows the computer to talk to and use the phone.
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