Bluetooth Capabilities of the HTC Evo Shift

| Sunday, April 10, 2011
By Gareth Jale


Virtually anyone who purchases the HTC EVO Shift have a general understanding of Bluetooth technology, a wireless technology that allows you to speak over a short distance. Along with products like a case and a screen protector, a Bluetooth headset is among the most popular accessories on the market. With a Bluetooth headset, you can talk conveniently on your phone without physically holding it to your ear. You can talk with convenience while driving in your car or walking the city streets.

But convenient, mobile phone conversations aren't the be all and end all of Bluetooth. In fact, Bluetooth has become a much more popular choice among music listeners now that smart phones and the Bluetooth devices made for them support AD2P. Another great feature is the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile, which allows music enthusiasts to stream music directly from their phone to headphones. And the AD2P isn't just limited to headphones either. You can purchase Bluetooth speakers for your home or car, or have one set that you take with you.

Music and voice communication aren't the only types of data transmission via Bluetooth that it supports. If your PC, Mac or Linux computer supports Bluetooth, you can connect to it with your smart phone just as easily as you'd connect to your Bluetooth headset. Once connected, you can transfer data files, such as music and videos, and you can synchronize your libraries. If your computer doesn't happen to have Bluetooth support, you can easily purchase a USB Bluetooth dongle and connect it. With Bluetooth technology, you can use your phone to connect to electronic devices other than a computer. It can even connect to another smart phone and it can connect to a Bluetooth enabled TV to act as a remote.

As consumers, we like to think that Bluetooth is Bluetooth and that Bluetooth in one device works just as well as it does in another. But often, that isn't the case. In fact, prior to the recent line of these phones, HTC has had a horrible reputation when it came to Bluetooth reception. No matter how fantastic and numerous your Bluetooth capabilities are, it means little if reception is poor and the connection drops out with frequency. With the recent release of phones, they has taken a huge lead forward but they're still not as efficient as Apple. Bluetooth reception is considerably strong so there should be no problem transmitting a document from your phone to another device.

HTC has also significantly increased their discovery algorithms. In the past, it was very common to have a Bluetooth device that couldn't be easily discovered. Sometimes it wouldn't show up at all and you'd have to do a hard reset on the phone. Well, those days are gone. Without even being asked, your phone will automatically recognize all of the Bluetooth-enabled devices within range. Simply select the one you want from the provided list and presto; it will auto-magically connect you.




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