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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!
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....