Using Bluetooth to Extend Cellphone Range

[Brad Isaac]

What interested me in in this article over at MobileWhack was that it featured a picture of my Jabra Bluetooth headset. Turns out it has some useful information about how to extend past the cellphone "dead zones" in your house or office by using bluetooth. In other words, since you can keep your cellphone in a good spot and walk away from it using your BT headset, you can get a few more yards of range from it.
"You've no doubt heard discussion over the years of solving the "last mile" in Internet connectivity. Chances are that if you're reading this, you're connected to your heart's content both indoors (DSL, cable modem, WiFi) and out (GPRS, WiFi hotspots).
But what plagues most cellphone users is not Internet connectivity, but that last yard of voice. Subspace anomalies mean I can't use my cellphone in particular corners of my house. There are huge swathes of dead air in the corporate headquarters that have mobile users scrambling for the nearest exit or pressed up against the windows in a particular direction--that depending on the direction of their carrier's nearest cell tower."
I'll admit I've used this strategy in the past couple of weeks with varying degrees of success. Sometimes if you get too far away from the cellphone or move too much, you get some terrible artifacts in the sound. But it's a good tip all the same.