I was in the cinema a few weeks back and as I walked out, I found my phone had multiple movie advertisements stored in the documents folder. This was advertising which the cinema had placed on my phone whilst the film was on. I was not aware that this was happening at the time as my phone was on silent, they could have sent me anything they wanted. I felt it was quite an invasion of privacy, but it was my problem as I had not set up my phone with adequate protection.

Windows Mobile 5 devices have a simple utility to disable the automatic receiving of beamed files via Bluetooth. To access it, go into your settings and select the Connections tab. You should fine the Beam icon in here. Change the tick box to enable or disable this feature.

You also have the option to turn off Bluetooth when you don’t need it but this is becoming less of an option over time as we are relying on Bluetooth more and more.

If you want to receive everything that is sent to your device, and want to investigate how to use this feature yourself, check out my article on “Sending messages an files over Bluetooth.”