Dowloading photos useing Bluetooth from Cell phone

Question

I have a Samsung SCH a870, and would like to transfer pictures from onto a MacBook Pro using Bluetooth and iPhoto from a recent trip to Italy. The phone and Mac appeared to be paired and configured. Still iPhoto does not appear able to pick up the phone and transfer pics via Bluetooth.
Device Name: SCH-A870
Device Address: 00-17-e4-xx-xx-xx
Device Type: Phone
**Device Services: Voice Gateway, AUDIO Gateway, Dial-up Networking**
Paired: Yes
Configured: Yes
Favorite: Yes
Connected: No
Device services list doesn't look promising. It's puzzling that the devices aren't listed as connected.
Many thanks,
John L
College Station, TX

Answer 1

John,
I don't think you can directly import from your phone into iPhoto. You will need to put the phone photos into a folder somewhere (such as your desktop) and import that folder into iPhoto.
However, that 'Not connected' item is not reassuring. You may have a problem similar to mine, with my LG phone. I can get photos FROM my Mac TO the phone, but not the other direction. They are obviously connected correctly, and I can 'send' images to the phone. When I try to 'get' the images from the phone, the connection is severed.
From what I could tell on LG sites and one of the BlueTooth ones here, certain LG phones just won't transfer their images.
The only way I have found to get photos from my cell phone is to email them to myself.