Bluetooth connection iPhone 4-Macbook Pro

Hi,
I'm not being able to connect my iPhone 4 to my Mac... the computer finds the phone just fine and goes through the pairing process. But when the phone 'finds' the pairing request and asks if I want to pair and I click 'Pair', it tells me that my Mac is unsupported??!!
I don't understand this. My old Sony Ericsson phone paired with my Mac just fine.
Help please!
Thanks, p

These are the only supported Bluetooth profiles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3647
As you can see, file transfer, by Bluetooth, is not supported.

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