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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"
I have a PDA/Cellphone (I added a SDIO Bluetooth card). Now the card doesn't support the headset profile so I can't use a bluetooth head set. It supports the dial-up profile, but only to talk to a phone, so my laptop can't use the pda cell phone as a modem. The PDA doesn't support a mouse so that won't work even though the card supports it, the keyboard doesn't work (i'm not sure why). My laptop and PDA can talk and sync via the BT (which is nice), but the connection sharing doesn't so I can't use my laptop's lan connection to surf via the PDA. The idea of bluetooth is great, but there's a bunch of compatibility issues. There's all these "profiles" that arn't always compatable.
Thats because you must live in the US. The US must be the most technologically backward country when it comes to mobile phones. And mobiles (limited power) is where bluetooth does its best.
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I only wish. I live in the Texas panhandle area -- last summer I finally decided to get a cell phone. I decided I wanted one with Bluetooth. I went to every phone shop in my city and three nearby cities, and none had any Bluetooth phones. Hell, when I got frustrated looking by myself, I asked if they had any Bluetooth-enabled phones, and every person I talked to just gave me a blank stare.
I did some further research on the local condition, and the only cell phone network in the local area that even supports Bluetooth phones (or rather, a Bluetooth phone -- they only support one model) considers this area "off-network service," so many of their features are unusable unless I happen to be driving through a larger town.
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Bluetooth has never been 'dying' - I really don't know why /. keeps posting this FUD. It's certainly very popular here in UK and is great for transferring files from Phone -> Phone or Phone -> Laptop.