Bluetooth Phone & MBP

My phone is bluetooth and I know it can sync with my MBP and iMac. What I am wondering is if anybody knows if there is any software out there where i can sync them and then answer my phone on the MBP using the builtin microphone and speakers. If there is anything anybody knows about, let me know. If not, I think they should make something like that.
Thanks a head.
-Iggy
iMac G5, Custom PC, & MacBook Pro   Windows XP   iPod 5G, iPod Mini

Interesting question. You can definitely use a Bluetooth headset with your Mac (to listen to audio coming from your Mac), since the Bluetooth stack on MacOS supports the handsfree profile. And you can connect your phone to your Mac to sync, as well as get call notifications (e.g., you can go into AddressBook and pair up with your phone, and if a call comes in and caller ID is in effect, it will pick up the matching address card and show you who is calling. Does the same with SMS messages. You can also dial your Bluetooth phone from Address Book.
Note that some of these things won't work on all phones. I can't, for example, dial out through my BT phone, because the one I have doesn't support being triggered externally. But many phones will work fine this way.
I don't think you can turn this around, though, and have the phone pair with the computer such that it thinks the computer is a handsfree headset. At least not as far as I know. It would be a bit tricky to make this happen, because you'd have to convince the Mac's bluetooth stack to publish itself as a handsfree device when it pairs with the phone, and I don't think it's wired that way.

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