Playbook cannot receive bluetooth files

Yet another problem with this most useless device... Trying to bluetooth a file from my Mac; both have bluetooth switched on, both are 'discoverable'; the Playbook appears in the window on the Mac, but when I try to send a file the little thing in the corner spins round and round for ages, saying 'connecting to the device', but it never sends the file, & then tells me something like the device 'doesn't have the necessary facilities' (or something; can't remember the exact wording).
Is there anything this useless Playbook thing can actually do properly? I thought I was buying somehting like an android device, but it is incompatible with almost everything (Skype, etc...), & really simple things like Bluetooth, that the most basic phone can manage, seem to be totally beyond it's capabilities.

I use my playbook almost every day for email, movies, games, video chat, web surfing, picture taking and taking videos of my kids while they dance to music that is playing from my playbook.
I use wifi sharing to transfer things from my PC to playbook, much faster too
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