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Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week
An anonymous reader writes "Just when you think that Bluetooth is dead... The Bluetooth SIG releases a press story that quotes some pretty impressive figures - over 1M Bluetooth enabled devices have been shipped within a week. Bluetooth wireless technology has been quietly making progress over the past year and can now be found in an impressive array of consumer products, from mobile phones and headsets to PDAs, PCs, MP3 players and even automobiles. The technology has reached critical mass, with several books on how to write your own applications with the technology, including Java for those of you who want to create your own Bluetooth apps for your SonyEricsson P900"
BSD people start claiming that boat loads of BSD products are flying off the shelve? *looks at apple.com* Never mind. :)
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the "beginning of the end of bluetooth" statements?
---- Move SIG...For great justice!
> New technologies take time to get established. Obvious but true. Think of how long it took for video rental stores to get a DVD section.
There's a difference: DVD's work.
I enter my office, press ONE button and everything in my phone gets backuped via Bluetooth . I sit in my car and when the phone rings in my backpocket, I press answer on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and just talk. When i want to call mum while driving I press the green button on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and say "mum". When my girlfriends siemens s55 is full of pictures she took with her camera she downloads some of them to me and can take more pictures. When i had coffee at a local place i saw two guys trying to transmit a file from one to the other(IrDa) i scanned the neighborhood and transmitted a nice picture of my girlfriend(No, not the face) to one of them. Never talked to them though*grin* Last week when my isp refused to deliver a connection to my adsl, I even used my phone/gprs to do banking(http). And no i did NOT use WAP or that silly little phone keyboard. I connected my PC via Bluetooth via phone/gprs to the net, a bit slow but I did manage to pay my bills on time. So, personally I'm hooked. Can You spot the lie by the way...... okey, You got me that part of having a girlfriend was a lie, but the rest just work. Neat eh..... Sorry about typos, I guess the tought about a girlfriend distracted me a bit....
Personally, I can't wait for Walmart to have another way to tell me that baby food is on sale as soon as I walk in the door.
They won't tell you about the baby food. Your Bluetooth enabled credit/loyalty card will already have identified your buying habits. The store's database will crunch away, and in an instant, your phone/pda/gaming device/watch will all message you telling you about the offers that do pertain to you.
You bought Corn Flakes once before, perhaps you'd like to try this new Cereal. We think it tastes just as good, and is even cheaper (and their marketing department are definantly not paying us - honest).
The scary thing is, they'll probably work it out so smoothly, you probably will buy the things that they suggest.
Refuse to make a statement in your sig!
...to be on your cellphone, on your computer, in your blender, in your food processor, and any other battery-powered self-pleasure device of your choice.
Go BlueTooth!
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
Anyone who says that Apple doesn't influence technology trends is either blind or ignorant.
Lucky for you, noone really says that. They just say Apple sucks.
"I only speak the truth"
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