Ask HN: When was the last time you used bluetooth?

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Asking this question because I've been researching a bit on Bluetooth and on forums I've read a lot of mixed responses from people. Some people like it some don't want anything to do with it.

This thread will help me understand what hacker news thinks of BT

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On my way to work to connect my phone to my car, yesterday I used some bluetooth headphones, and anytime I send files via AirDrop I used bluetooth. I think my PS4 uses bluetooth for the controllers. My Mac uses bluetooth to connect to my mouse and keyboard. I use it daily, as I think a lot of people do...?

Never ? Tested, many times over the years. But it's never worked reliably or been useful in any way for me.

Multiple times today. Any other way of linking car and phone?

Oh, and the mouse is also Bluetooth. Paired it eons ago and forgot...

Also, I think the "wifi direct" feature for sending largish data between smartphones uses an initial Bluetooth handshake (authorization+wifi setup parameters).

is wifi direct well supported in phones. I know my phone has it but I've never used it personally. Will need to check it out.

Depends; hinges on vendor support in that specific model. If it works, it works seamlessly; OTOH, if this doesn't work well on that device, Bluetooth won't work well, either.

(Incidentally, sending files from featurephones to smartphones never failed me - BT seems to be well debugged there, as it's usually the only local networking option)

This afternoon, driving home from work, linking my car and phone.

Earlier I had headphones linked to my phone via Bluetooth.

~5 minutes ago.

10 minutes ago

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