The Future of Bluetooth
Because it meets the basic
needs of connectivity in close range, Bluetooth has a very bright future ahead
of it. Bluetooth is actually the result
of initiatives from nine leading communications and computer industry giants,
including IBM, Microsoft, 3-COM, Sony, Lucent, and Nokia.
Since the forming of the
original group, more than 1,800 manufacturers around the world have joined the
initiative. According to reports, the
Bluetooth technology is expected to be built into more than 100 million
devices, with over 670 million enabled Bluetooth devices.
Resulting from the amazing
success of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), the adoption of smart phones
and hand held devices, Bluetooth can easily have an amazing impact on your day
to day life. Bluetooth is one of the key
technologies that can help to make the mobile information society happen, by
blurring the possibilities between home, the office, and the outside world.
The seamless integration and
connectivity that Bluetooth promises will make it possible to explore a wide
range of interactive and highly transparent personalized services which were
actually quite difficult to dream of simply because of the complexity involved
with making such devices communicate with each other.
Many Bluetooth pilot products
have already been rolled into the market and backed by big vendors, which is a
healthy sign for the overall acceptance of the technology. The support for Bluetooth isn't limited to
companies that develop only Bluetooth enabled products.
The applications for Bluetooth
can have great impacts on other industries as well. The adoption of Bluetooth technology is
expected to spread throughout the industry of computers.
Unlike infrared technology,
Bluetooth is used by many different wireless devices. Bluetooth offers exceptional quality for
short range wireless, even going through walls and obstructions. While infrared is the biggest competitor at
this time, Bluetooth far surpasses it, proving to millions that it is the
wireless communication technology of the present day and age.
In the beginning, Bluetooth
started with version 1.0, then gradually moved from there. The current version is 2.0+EDR, with another
version currently in development. The
technology behind the Bluetooth specification always getting better and better,
which is why it's so popular.
In the future, you can expect
the technology behind Bluetooth to get better.
Bluetooth has proven to be the wireless standard of the future, offering
you wireless connectability for hundreds of different devices. For cell phones or other forms of wireless
connections, Bluetooth is the one technology that you don't want to find
yourself without.
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About the Author
David Roberts is the author of many articles on Bluetooth, including
Bluetooth DUN and Wireless Mouse.