How do you use “bluetooth” to link a cellphone and a computer?

My husband just bought a new SonyEricsson camera phone, and in the instructions it says that we can use “bluetooth” to establish a link between his phone and our PC. However, we are both totally technically inept, and we can’t make sense of the instructions! Can someone, in plain English and small words, tell us how to do this? We know that we have to go to the SonyEricsson website and download some software (although we don’t have a direct link to the file, and we can’t find it), but from there we are lost. Does something need to plug into our computer? And at what port? Do we need to buy specialized equipment? We don’t even know what “bluetooth” actually is!! Please help, we are SO lost!

This is an example of a bluetooth adapter for your PC:

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It is usually a USB port that you use on your computer. It looks like a little rectanglular port on the back of your computer.

It is a little plugin that you insert into your PC and it allows your PC to connect to your phone wirelessly.

Bluetooth is the same as how we would use wireless connection to connect to the internet. Its a new technology that came out recently for cell phones. We can even use bluetooth ear and headsets to connect to our phone without any wires, and so you might see people walking around talking to themselves. Its confusing to see because there are no wires!

Once you connect the bluetooth PC adapter to your computer, the setup should be self explanatory.

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