Send-Receive SMS and Calls with Macbook via N73

I love to work. It's one of my passions, to be productive. And also, I love texting. Not that I like textmates, but i have to accept the reality right now that you can reach everybody through SMS or calling them through their numbers.

But texting to me sometimes is very annoying especially if you are working and really focusing much on your work or in your pressure mode. Let say, you are rushing things up then you have your friend or client annoying you so much through texting. He send messages to you asking instructions and you of course, you have to reply. In my case, i don't reply most of the time especially it its not that important really. Texting a lot of characters or giving instructions through SMS really takes time especially if you have an annoying keypad too.

So the problem is, I want to speed up and make things easy and be more productive too. And pleasing my textmates by replying to them promptly without dragging my fingers from the keyboard to the keypads.

Nowadays phones have Bluetooth and if you are lucky enough, you might as well have a s60-Nokia Phone, mine is a Nokia N73 Music Edition and a Apple Mac laptop.

So we have the perfect gadgets. A Nokia N73 and a Macbook. The two gadgets will used their Bluetooth power.

I found this software from Mira Software called Bluephone Elite version 2. Their taglines says, "Your Mobile Phone on your Mac". This one costs $24USD. I'm already using the trial version before deciding if I have to buy it or not. Of course, this is really a good one so far that I found after googling for other good softwares that match my stuffs.

Download the software, then install it. Before it ends installing, a S60 software will be sent to your phone via bluetooth for phone installation. Open the new message, then the installer will install itself. The Bluephon Elite program will be installed in your Macbook, as well as in your N73. In N73 the program is called, BPEnabler. This program can be run automatically. The two should be running together for them to communicate wirelessly.



The BPEnabler inside the Applications Folder of the N73.



Activate the BPEnabler to connect it to the Macbook Bluephone Elite.

What i like in this application is that, you will always have your N73 data and status in your Macbook tray. It has a Signal Status and a Battery indicator. So you don't have to worry if you have a 5-bar or out of the coverage area or if your battery is draining already. This means that you can just keep your mobile phone in your pocket or just hide it somewhere else as long as the Bluetooth signal is strong between the 2 devices.

When your phone and Macbook is connected via bluetooth and Blue Phone Elite is running and so your BPenabler in your phone is active, a status indicator icon in your phone will appear that looks like a car. And in your Macbook, the signal and battery indicator is displayed.



The BPEnabler Status icon sitting beside the connected Bluetooth Icon.


When it comes to SMS, it displays automatically in your screen if you have a New SMS. Displaying it or whatever you wanted just to be notified for new SMS can be configured in the Preferences section. Also with the famous filipino-notification style, the "missed call" and calls. Your Macbook can be used for calling and receving calls too. A notification will be displayed in the screen in real time. The only miss that they didn't include in the software is that, it doesn't synchronized the Read SMS to your phone. So if you have a new SMS, in your phone it will always be displayed that you have a New Message. So your New Messages will pile-up.




The preferences window of the BluePhone Elite version 2



Composing Messages with your phone contacts and Reading New Messages.

But, everything is worth if you talk productivity within your self and your gadgets. You won't be using your phone that much and saving some keypad's usage. So texting, copying and pasting is fast using your computer keyboard. This is very nice and you will really enjoy if you have a lot of textmates! lols...

So give yourself a try of this. I will be trying this also with my HP Ipaq 6365 Phone. Because you can add as many phones as you have in the Preference section of the Bluephone Elite.

N73 Screenshots by ScreenSnaps60 by TerraMobilis - Softwares for Symbians.

So enjoy!