Bluetooth: Dead or Alive?

[r1zeek]

Can you help me settle a dispute between me and my sister.

Is Bluetooth technology dead or alive?

Cheers

[directhex]

bluetooth had a somewhat lukewarm beginning, but it grows and continues to grow - mostly due to its patent-free ethos meaning companies can make sure of bluetooth without paying any money

[Bindibadgi]

Like usb used to be - things have it, but not enough to really make an impact although a lot more are including it in stuff now. If mobos had it by default more and more would take it up.

[Flibb]

I use it to connect my laptop and pda to my network. Easy and cheap

[Zathras]

There's no other suitable technology for PANs. In a PC sense it's dead but in a consumer electronics sense it's only just getting going.

[r1zeek]

Well I never. I'm sure I read it somewhere that bluetooth was already dead or dying. Can't remember for the life of me where it was. It must have been at the "lukewarm begining" as hexeh says that I read it...

[Flibb]

there was sommit on the register recently, ment to be a replacement for bluetooth out soon.

[Rabs]

Wireless USB will be out in the near future, which may overtake bluetooth :/

I find my bluetooth kit to be buggy and slow anyway.

[r1zeek]

Wireless USB will be out in the near future, which may overtake bluetooth :/

I find my bluetooth kit to be buggy and slow anyway.

Well said mate. Thats where I got my ideas from. Bad experiences with bluetooth in the past. Wireless USB could be annoying though, having batteries in everything, tis a bit crazy, wouldn't mind a nice wireless joystick though! (they probably to make them, never heard of them though)

[directhex]

slow? it's for wireless mice & keyboards, not gigabit networking

and wireless usb is a prime example of intel's "not invented here" syndrome. rather than using existing and above all free tech, invent their own to do the same job & prevent interoperability. hooray.

[r1zeek]

invent their own to do the same job & prevent interoperability. hooray.

Why those swines.....

Anything cool/useful I could try out to sway my mind about bluetooth?

[directhex]

combine a sonyericsson T68i or above mobile phone with a pc running the appropriate sofwtare - instant remote control, including volume altering depending on proximity. i've seen it with a t630 plus powermac.

[Zathras]

Linking your mobile, PDA and computer together. WLAN is far too power-hungry and way overspecced for mobile devices. Bluetooth headsets for mobiles. Using your PC mic/speakers as a headset for your mobile in another room. Using a P900 and opera to browse the internet over a bluetooth connection to a broadband-linked PC.

[Swafe]

bluetooth ?

hmmm


well its good and its bad, its alive and kickin in the mobile market, but i dont see why, as a networking interconnection it is dead, as its too slow and theres no point

why did they bring it to mobile phones? i dont know ! its crap, better than IRDA, granted but why not wifi ? its many times faster, and more compatible, could make good use of them wifi hotspots for broadband internet access to ! but no, bluetooth it is, slow and boring, its good between phones but nothing else, some reason mobile manus love it tho. if they replaced bluetooth in phones with wifi, bluetooth = dead, however i dont think they will, not for time anyway so buetooths here, and here to stay even tho it may not be as useful as other network connections

[Zathras]

Oh yeah, and exactly how long do you expect a mobile to run with Wifi?

[Swafe]

i duno, but something like that at least, im sure its possible

they get it into pdas so why not oints: