07-03-2002, 06:36 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Car kit with Bluetooth Wireless Technology
http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/btcarkit.html
Yet another wondrous Bluetooth solution - I wonder if it will work?
"Imagine holding a conversation on your Bluetooth wireless phone while entering a car that has a Motorola Bluetooth car kit. Your phone conversation would automatically transition from the phone to the communication system within the car. You could toss the phone into your briefcase and seamlessly continue your conversation via the communication control panel installed within the car. When the conversation ends, you could choose to initiate another call by using voice dialing features or select to play music from a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player that's also inside the car." Source: Humphrey Riley
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07-03-2002, 06:53 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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It works. Unusually I saw an actual prototype being demonstrated and it worked without a flaw! There has to be ome kind of medal for this surely? 
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07-03-2002, 10:27 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 46
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Looks Cool, but the trouble is that Bluetooth seems to be stuck. I think WiFi might just blow right by it. Everybody is buying WiFi stuff because it seems the Bluetooth stuff is always right around the corner, just wait it will be out. I passed on a Bluetooth enabled iPaq because I could not see anything I wanted it to communicate with. :?
Lets just drop Bluetooth and go ahead with 1 system.
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07-03-2002, 10:56 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: Car kit with Bluetooth Wireless Technology
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
- I wonder if it will work?
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Good one! 
How about this.... drop the MP3 player and add GPS?
Dave
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07-03-2002, 11:53 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 361
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The debate rages on
Well, I know we could talk about Wi-Fi versus Bluetooth until we're blue in the face, but I still believe there is a place for both of them. I agree that last December when the iPAQ 3870 first came out, many questioned why they put BT in it due to the lack of devices to communicate with. But since then, OEMs have proved that there is interest in the technology by implementing it in many more items than were available at the time.
This car system seems like a fairly practical use of BT, and I applaud Motorola. I love their BT headset (which will probably work with this system somehow). Why not use Wi-Fi instead? Two words: battery life. One must ask themselves if the interoperability of 802.11b outweighs having to charge the device every hour. :roll:
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07-04-2002, 12:06 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: The debate rages on
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Originally Posted by kagayaki1
Well, I know we could talk about Wi-Fi versus Bluetooth until we're blue in the face, but I still believe there is a place for both of them.
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I think there have been a few dedicated board threads to this topic and they usually sputter from analytical views of how they are different and solve different problems to the final conclusion that they overlap more than they don't and both have pros and cons.
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Originally Posted by kagayaki1
Why not use Wi-Fi instead? Two words: battery life. One must ask themselves if the interoperability of 802.11b outweighs having to charge the device every hour. :roll:
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I would assume that while in a car, the car enabled reciever is recieving it's own power and that a PDA could easily have a place to charge itself. Of course, if there is a 'docking' station.... is there any benefit to wireless?
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07-04-2002, 01:16 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by Tom Eichers
Lets just drop Bluetooth and go ahead with 1 system.
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Completely wrong! Bluetooth is the better standard for this kind of connectivity! It starts from lower power consumption and ends with specific profiles like Voice and I'm not talking about VoIP!
It seems as the Americans don't trust Bluetooth at all, here in Europe it's making its way and will do it too any time in the US!
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07-04-2002, 01:35 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Arne Hess
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Originally Posted by Tom Eichers
Lets just drop Bluetooth and go ahead with 1 system.
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Completely wrong! Bluetooth is the better standard for this kind of connectivity! It starts from lower power consumption and ends with specific profiles like Voice and I'm not talking about VoIP!
It seems as the Americans don't trust Bluetooth at all, here in Europe it's making its way and will do it too any time in the US! |
I just knew people would get emotional about it. Both are great technologies, both intentionally serve two different purposes. I see BT as a wireless replacement for short cables. WiFi is wireless networking. What is happening with networking however is that packet switching is becoming more useful for other tasks... don't laugh, VoIP will be the norm and you won't know about it. Verizon has said it is changing it's switching infrastructure to do this and your GSM phone will be doing VoIP on their back-end. The point is, IP has become more useful and flexible and is creeping into other applications. As IP networking replaces other forms of cabling and communication, wireless IP (WiFi) will be found to be useable as a short-range cable replacement. Although designed for different applications, I see a head on collision coming.
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07-04-2002, 05:00 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 192
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It will work, but the car kit will have a separate ESN so we'll wind up needing to have two accounts with our cellular company!
8O
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07-04-2002, 06:42 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 98
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I'm sorry, but for all that have read this far, I just have to post on this. As I was driving into work this morning (an hour), I realized I forgot my cell headset at home. After spending 15 minutes on the phone, I thought, "why doesn't someone make a Bluetooth car hands-free kit that your phone automatically transitions to when you enter?" I hadn't seen it before, and thought it's a perfect application of Bluetooth technology.
So I get home, and read this post. How wierd is that?
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