i have an infarred red light on my new phone its a w300i sony ericsson and i have know idea what it does.. i want to know if it can come into any use ! everytime i send someone pictures it gives me the option of sending then via infarred but i dont know how ! anybody know ?
2007-07-28 04:33:37 · 6 answers · asked by kaylaaa 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
Infrared is a typo of wireless connection for data transferring... It's not a light, it's a transmitter... You can send and receive files to and from another phone with IR (infrared).. the only thing is that the phones must be facing each other by the IR transmitter... The principal difference from IR to BLUETOOTH (BT) is that with bluetooth the devices don't have to be facing each other and BT is also used for VOICE... How to use the one on your phone?
If you're going to send a file, locate the file, press menu and send via infrared (IMPORTANT... THE OTHER PHONE MUST BE IN RECEIVING MODE)
If you're going to receive a file, go to settings, connection, infrared, activate..
2007-07-28 04:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by joancolmenares 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some laptops and many printers can communicate over an invisible infrared light beam. If you wanted to send a photo from your cellphone to the printer you could point the phone at the printer from a few feet away and trigger that sending.
If you don't have an infrared-capable printer or laptop the feature is worthless on your phone. Maybe you can find a friend who also has a w300i and exchange photos with that friend when you two are together.
2007-07-28 11:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infrared allows you to transfer information to other devices that have infrared capabillity. Infrared is short range (maybe 10 feet max and often the devices have to be very close) and has to have line of sight i.e. doesn't work if your phone is in your pocket. If your friend has infrared on his/her phone, you could transfer contacts, photos, music, etc. It's quite quick and easy - just turn on infrared on both phones and try and send a contact via Infrared. Point the phones at each other and the other phone should say "contact received, save yes/no" or similar and you can save it...
Bluetooth is a better option because it does the same stuff but over a longer range (maybe 30 feet) and your phone can be out of sight, plus it's not affected by sunlight and other interference.
2007-07-28 11:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by SpiceBoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree to the most recent post, this is a fairly outdated concept, it used to a be a standard for serial transfer on notebook computers but this is steadily being phased out by newer practices such as bluetooth and wifi. If the other device is infrared compliant then all you have to do is turn the other devices i.e. cell phone IR recieve on and select send IR then go get yourself something to eat because this is a incredibly slow process.
2007-07-28 11:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by silencetheevil8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anything about your phone, but, in general, infrared light is invisible, longer wavelength light that humans cannot see
It's used for remote control a lot.
2007-07-28 11:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by yyyyyy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-28 11:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋