HOWDY DOODIES sweet potato bums!!! just posting a thread to ask about something to do with Infrared ports. well u see i just got this new cell phone from hk which isnt out yet in nz...whoop whoop. its a sony ericsson k508i, anywayz... i have taken pictures and would like to send them to my PC and coz it is a infrared phone...(im not sure if that is good compared to bluetooth...but then again i dont no wat the crap is bluetooth either ) but the thing is i dont no if my PC supports the infrared ports... and stupid me had lost the manual to the computer...well i dont really remember one coming with it though. my computer is kinda old i guess...its a Compaq presario 5000 series...or something like that...u guys know if it has it? and if it does where would it be?
if u cant help me with that then that is fine...got any other suggestions on how i should come by this problem?
oooh there is this other thing i would like to do with my phone, and that is get music onto it... but i wanna do this from my computer though all my fav stuff is there (WHOO HOO TO ROCK!!!)...i mean i find it silly that i have a media player on my cell phone but no music to play it with just stupid really.

 

Most desktops don't come with infrared ports, as far as I'm aware. But if your computer happens to have one, it would most likely be covered by a flat dark (black/dark red) translucent (almost opaque) plastic window (very much like what you'd see on the front end of most TV remotes).

Assuming your computer doesn't come with an infrared port, you'd have to use either Bluetooth (as you mentioned), or buy an adapter cable from Sony Ericsson.

Hope this helps.

 

awww bum.... gonna have to spend more money aye...

by the way, how does bluetooth work??? and which one is better...infrared or bluetooth???

 

I take it your phone doesn't come with the necessary cables (most don't but I figured I'd ask anyway)?

As for Bluetooth vs Infrared. Bluetooth is newer, and in many ways better than infrared. It uses radio waves to communicate, so it'll work as long as your phone is within a certain distance from your computer (something like two meters), whereas with infrared, the phone's infrared port has to be within a few inches of the computers infrared port, and they have to be pointing at each other. I'm guessing Bluetooth is faster than Infrared too.

Having said that, I doubt your computer has Bluetooth support built-in, because Bluetooth is so new. To take advantage of your phone's Bluetooth capabilities, you'll have to buy a Bluetooth adapter for your computer (yup spend more money ), and quite frankly, I'm not sure if it's worth the money.

 

lol. well thank u for ur help anywayz. i guess i will just stick with photos on just my phone aye...or i can send them to my email but im not sure if that would cost...yesterday i managed to send a few mms and found it didnt charge me...lol...