Monday, July 8, 2002
Bluetooth still lacks bite
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 04:26 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/08/tech.test.bluetooth.ap/index.html
This from the "I could have told you that 4 months ago" department.
The author states "the Bluetooth devices I tested couldn't all "find" each other. Even when they could, they didn't always work right."
He had an iPAQ 3870, Ericsson phone, IBM T30 laptop with built in BT, a Sony-Ericsson headset and the 3COM BT USB adapter. He had about as much fun, and success, as most people do trying to load 8 different types of device drivers for DOS in one config.sys file. "So Bluetooth still isn't quite ready for prime time. But it ought to be, and soon."
Uh huh. I'll believe it when I see it. I really hope it works, but I've been hearing about Bluetooth and seeing demo's since 1999. Three years later, I am hearing about it, seeing demos and reading reviews like this. Great when it works, but getting it to work can be very frustrating if you aren't lucky enough to have it work out of the box. I'll stick with my cables for now. Well, not my ethernet cable. That is collecting dust thanks to my WiFi card. And my travel USB cable. That too is collecting dust thanks to IR.
This from the "I could have told you that 4 months ago" department.
The author states "the Bluetooth devices I tested couldn't all "find" each other. Even when they could, they didn't always work right."He had an iPAQ 3870, Ericsson phone, IBM T30 laptop with built in BT, a Sony-Ericsson headset and the 3COM BT USB adapter. He had about as much fun, and success, as most people do trying to load 8 different types of device drivers for DOS in one config.sys file. "So Bluetooth still isn't quite ready for prime time. But it ought to be, and soon."
Uh huh. I'll believe it when I see it. I really hope it works, but I've been hearing about Bluetooth and seeing demo's since 1999. Three years later, I am hearing about it, seeing demos and reading reviews like this. Great when it works, but getting it to work can be very frustrating if you aren't lucky enough to have it work out of the box. I'll stick with my cables for now. Well, not my ethernet cable. That is collecting dust thanks to my WiFi card. And my travel USB cable. That too is collecting dust thanks to IR.
