The other day, I got a new cellphone. My ancient Motorola T720 has been replaced with a much newer and cooler Motorola E815. Among the new features I gained was a megapixel camera, a Transflash/microSD slot, and of course bluetooth.

So far, I've gotten most of it to work with Mac OS X 10.4. I've got iSync working, and I've got OBEX going as well. I've transferred sound, video, and pictures from and to the phone. I've sync'd my address book with the phone. These work great. Sadly, there is one feature of Address Book that I can't get working.

In Address Book, you're supposed to be able to pair your phone and then right-click on phone numbers. This brings up a context menu that includes SMS Message and Dial With Cell Phone. Sadly, my phone refuses to work with Address Book. Whenever I click the pair button, it asks for a Passkey. This, despite already having paired it in System Preferences. No matter what I put in, it doesn't work and those two menu items remain grayed out.

Oddly, despite Address Book not working, there is payware for OS X that is able to interface with my phone and get call logs, SMS logs, and supports both incoming andoutgoing calls and SMS. I wish Apple would fix this, or somebody would tell me how to fix it. I want to be able to use my phone from Quicksilver. That'd be pretty sweet.

All that said, phones sure got cooler in the few years since I got my last one. I'm just happy I'm not another RAZR toting zombie like the majority of the Moto customers.