10-16-2003, 06:00 PM
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Dearly Beloved, We Gather Here Today To Pay Respects To Bluetooth
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031013S0040
"Bluetooth is dead. There, I've said it. I feel better already. I've been thinking along these lines for more than three years, but that's the first time I've made it public. I'm very rarely inclined to trash such major efforts, but the jury's back, and really has been for a while. Bluetooth is toast, finished, over. Stick a fork in it. It's done."
The author takes no pleasure in the above statement and neither do I. I wanted bluetooth to work. It showed great promise and even though I use it several times a week with my Nokia 3650 and iPAQ 2215, it is a frustrating experience to get set up and to this day, when you mention it to an average person, they have no clue what it is. No wonder it isn't a success. No one even knows what it is.
Just yesterday I was talking with another Microsoft MVP about getting his MS bluetooth keyboard working with his iPAQ 5555. Forget about it. IR, as slow as it is and limited by point and shoot, it just works. USB cables just work. Serial cables work. Bluetooth may or may not work, and when the supposedly superior technology often can't do what the inferior technology can, and makes it more difficult in the process, people just walk on by.
"In a few short years, many will look back on Bluetooth as a lesson on marketing gone awry. Most will still wonder what all the fuss was all about. Regardless, it's now time to move on."
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10-16-2003, 06:09 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
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WHAT!!!!! And you tell me this now after I spent 80 bucks on a dongle!!!
All you non believers, bluetooth was a breeze for me!! Ahhhh, now my day is ruined I tell you!
-Justin 
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10-16-2003, 06:19 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2004
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it works fine here
I use my Ipaq 2210 and my Nokia 6310i everyday. It was very simple to setup, and it works great. No hangups, no problems it just works. So my bluetooth headset doesn't sound as nice as a wired one....so what. I rather have that then get tangled in wires while I'm driving and pull the headset out of my ear. No thank you. I like my bluetooth.... so there. :lol:
CP
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10-16-2003, 06:21 PM
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Re: it works fine here
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Originally Posted by cptpoland
I use my Ipaq 2210 and my Nokia 6310i everyday. It was very simple to setup, and it works great. No hangups, no problems it just works. So my bluetooth headset doesn't sound as nice as a wired one....so what. I rather have that then get tangled in wires while I'm driving and pull the headset out of my ear. No thank you. I like my bluetooth.... so there. :lol:
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How do you like the interaction between the 2215 and your bluetooth headset? :wink:
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10-16-2003, 06:22 PM
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$$ to be made
If this take turns out to be true...
To bad I don't own a large software or hardware company...buy up the rights/patents and re-release it correctly in 5years.
I always viewed it as wireless/pointless USB/IR. I thought my toaster and TV would have it soon. Woulda been sweet for automotive applications. Oh well. 
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10-16-2003, 06:23 PM
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Unfortunately, I tend to agree. I have a BT multiport on my laptop, iPAQ 3870, T68, HBH-30 headset. The implementation is so flaky that I don't use any of these devices often. The only pairing that works well is the headset with my cell phone, and I use my cell phone so rarely that it's not enough to sway me that BT has value.
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10-16-2003, 06:23 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Don't worry. your bluetooth is still good for at least the next 2 years until the next best wireless solution is standardized. Somebody should just make a wireless version of USB if that's all all possible. The drivers and support is all there, only problem i forsee is that usb is a continously connected device which will complicate matters abit for the developers.
I'm still going to get a bluetooth phone. I plan to upgrade in the 2 years time which would suit very nicely if and when bluetooth's successor comes into the market.
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10-16-2003, 06:26 PM
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Intellectual
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I completely agree. I have bluetooth built into my laptop, in my Palm Tungsten T, and in many other pda's/phones/and handset's i've owned. It used to be a major factor whether or not I'd buy it... now I just don't care anymore.
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10-16-2003, 06:28 PM
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Aren't you rushing things Ed ???????
Bluetooth is one of those things you don't hear much about, but simply penetrates everything you own. In Europe, bluetooth penetration is rising rapidly. Availability of PC-based devices is going extremely fast (you can buy it everywere now for $20,-). Almost every medium to high end phone has bluetooth. Most high-end laptops have and a lot of PDA's too. Especially phones are amzingly easy to set up......
I think it's a bit like the first ISDN modems. They were a nightmare to set up, and everybody said: Joe Average never ever is capable of doing that. Now every moron in the known universe does......
Jaap
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10-16-2003, 06:29 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Never tried using my bluetooth headset with my ipaq.... cool idea, but why would you? Can't think of any reason to.... if it was stereo headphones (which I believe do exist somewhere) then I can see it being used.....but a mono headset.... nah.
One thing that would be nice is to use all three at the same time.....which unfortunatelly does not work. I believe it's the fault of the Nokia and their implementation of bluetooth. I accepted that limitation though....
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