Windows Phone Thoughts: Do You Leave Your Bluetooth Radio On?

Now that my laptop has a bluetooth radio in it I have more incentive to leave the bluetooth radio on my Pocket PC on so I can ActiveSync. I tried turning it on and off as needed but my iMATE PDA2K seems to have a bluetooth driver about as sophisticated as that of an iPAQ 3800, which is to say horrible and almost always requires a soft reset to enable it. :( That is the only gripe I have about the device, as it is a truly wonderful Pocket PC and I don't regret for a minute giving up my iPAQ 2215, though I never recall ever having to soft reset the 2215 to get the bluetooth radio on.

I have found leaving the bluetooth radio on all of the time on the PDA2K works for me though, despite the annoying blue light. :roll: Unlike other Pocket PCs I've owned, the PDA2K blinks whatever LED it feels the need to blink whether the device is "on" or not.



It isn't as annoying as it was on any previous iPAQ. They must be using a lower powered LED or diffusing it more, and it provides a yin-yang effect with the always blinking green LED on the right side of the device indicating that the GSM radio is on. It is still bothersome and why manufacturers are so giddy with LEDs is beyond me. The PDA2K has an impressive array of them. Upper left is blue, orange (charging) or green (charged or the WiFi radio is on). Upper right is green or red (message of some sort). The lower half has the red "End" light and green "Send" light. But I digress...

So for those of you with Pocket PCs equipped with bluetooth, to you leave it on all of the time, sometimes or have you never bothered turning it on?