Download Pictures from your Cell Phone via Bluetooth

robertev — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:54:00 GMT

If you have a bluetooth enabled laptop and a bluetooth enabled cellphone you may be able to download the pictures from your phone to your laptop via bluetooth... EVEN if your cell phone provider says it isn't possible (as in my case).

Perhaps they direct you to use their picture place service and to message your phone's images to that picture place. The down-side of this approach is that you loose resolution, it takes forever, and it costs a fortune!

This weekend I discovered a nifty free application that allows me to download my picutures from my camera phone faster, wireless via bluetooth, without loosing picture resolution - and for FREE!

Here's what you need to do:

Pair your phone to your laptop via bluetooth. (instructions for vista)
Download and install the bitpim exe from http://www.bitpim.org
Once Installed start it up. You should now see a screen like:

You can walk through the wizard to setup your phone. For my model phone - I found that the images were downloaded as part of the "wallpaper" download.

In addition - you can find (or create) ringtones and upload them to your phone via bluetooth, wireless and for FREE.

This is a great little jem of a find.

Zen of Software Development : laptop

Download Pictures from your Cell Phone via Bluetooth