Is Microsoft Working On Updating The Smartphones Bluetooth Implementation?

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nextlink.to/' target='_blank'>http://www.nextlink.to/</a><br /><br /></div>NextLink sells Bluetooth adapters for everything from your home phone to your mobile phone. The adapters are pretty stylish and small. The ones pictured below are only a little larger than a Zippo lighter. However that's not what this post is about.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20040719-NextLink-BT-Chameleon.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nextlink.to/bluespoon.asp?top=bs&amp;sideid=105&amp;menuiconid=2#spm9">Question 9</a> in their FAQ deals with the types of mobile phones these have been tested on. Scroll down under the QTEK/SPV/Imate/O2 section and you'll notice this little footnote:<br /><br /><div class="quote"> <span class="quote">Quote:</span> * Microsoft 2003 mobile Operative System phones. Voice features do not yet work on these models. MS is working on an upgrade of their Bluetooth part. </div><br /><br />Of course, this is not considered an official statement, but it sounds like Microsoft is aware of the Bluetooth problems people are having and working on a fix. What I'm wondering is if we'll see this update in the form of a patch, or will it be bundled into the next OS release?

[Kris Kumar]

I think it will be good if Microsoft fixed some of the core issues with its BT stack. Otherwise vendors might take things into their own hands, come up with their own implementations. Which means that users and developers would get a different experience for each Smartphone model. We don't want that, do we?

I hope its a patch, the next OS might be too far out. And I hope they have this patch on WM2003 Second Edition based phones coming out. Well I think that is too much wishful thinking.