The example of a Palm syncing to a desktop is not a great use of Bluetooth - in most cases, a USB connection would be faster and there is often a cradle attached to the machine so there's no hunt for a cable.
That said, imagine walking down the street with bluetooth headphones on, receiving audio from your bluetooth laptop snug in its bag, which is streaming the audio from your 3G bluetooth cellphone in your pocket. The true promise of Bluetooth is the Personal Area Network - PAN - in which you exist in a cloud of interconnected devices.
Is anyone else starting to feel vaguely concerned about how many 'clouds' we now live in?
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The example of a Palm syncing to a desktop is not a great use of Bluetooth - in most cases, a USB connection would be faster and there is often a cradle attached to the machine so there's no hunt for a cable.
That said, imagine walking down the street with bluetooth headphones on, receiving audio from your bluetooth laptop snug in its bag, which is streaming the audio from your 3G bluetooth cellphone in your pocket. The true promise of Bluetooth is the Personal Area Network - PAN - in which you exist in a cloud of interconnected devices.
Is anyone else starting to feel vaguely concerned about how many 'clouds' we now live in?