BlueTooth...mmMMmm...

[clifgriffin]

This bluetooth wireless technology could turn out nice... Imagine this...NO cables for your electronic devices. Put the stuff where you want it...and let them talk through air.

Apparently HP already has a bluetooth ready printer out and Microsoft just released the first mouse and keyboard...plus the hardware to the communication with other bluetooth devices.

If only I had more money.

Clif

[UnderTheSun]

money will always be my priority

but hey, one day i'll turn flamboyant..

[Markp.com]

Yup... the main thing is cost... The blue tooth digital handsfree head set for that sony erricson phone is £150!!!!

Crikey!

[clifgriffin]

Wait 6 months and it will be half that though.

[Markp.com]

Originally posted by clifgriffin
Wait 6 months and it will be half that though.

£75 for a head set?! You are kidding me!!!!!!! I'll wait 6 years till they are in the "everything for a pound" shop

[clifgriffin]

Look at DVD+RW drives...perfect example.

[aversion]

phones with bluetooth have been available in europe for over a year, it's a great technology with good support but it's just not getting off the ground. Maybe now with the interest in 'wireless' it will pick more interest, but many people have written it off already, several large companies involved in the creation of bluetooth have dropped out since it's inception.

I like the technology and I hope it takes off again, it has great business applications, but for the price to fall there has to be some interesting consumer applications, which there aren't at the moment.

[clifgriffin]

Maybe Microsoft will help shove it out the door? It certainly helps that they and hp are coordinating the release of a few consumer bluetooth products... I guess we'll have to see where it ends up.

Clif

[gerbick]

griffhiggins, where have you been for the last couple of years? bluetooth is, at the moment, available - and has been in the states as well for over a year in the form of the Ericsson phones, pre-Sony|Ericsson collaboration days - as well as other computer related items that have been waiting for the major OS's to play catch up.

WinXP was supposed to have it out of the box... it didn't. MacOS X 10.2 does have it out of the box... but you better upgrade to the newer version.

As far as money... I'm just waiting on when it's built-in to more products than just my iPaq. and the PCI/PCMCIA cards for computers are just as expensive as 802.11b... ugh.

oh well... still waiting for the day I'll have a wireless network with wireless printing/sharing.

[clifgriffin]

I know bluetooth has been around for awhile...I didn't realise that this was the direction it was going. I always thought of bluetooth as being a wireless method for handhelds...didn't know they were going to use it as a usb cable replacement.

This aspect of the technology is something I'd actually use.

Clif

[aversion]

there are many uses for bluetooth beyond home consumer products. The chips were supposed to be cheap enough that they could be used to control stock in retail organisations where the cost is effective, checkout would involve walking up to a checkout which would instantly know what you're carrying, even if you're hiding it

I doubt bluetooth will be that popular with consumers, it is more than a USB replacement, its uses are only limited by the imagination, but few people seem to have used much in developing uses for it so far.

[monkii]

yo clift, they even have internet on computers now!

[jamble]

Originally posted by monkii
yo clift, they even have internet on computers now!

<Homer>They have the internet on computers now?</Homer>