Windows Phone Thoughts: Bluetooth SIG Announces 1M Units Shipped... Per Week

So, as you already know, not all the PPCT editors agree on Bluetooth's future. :lol: I'm generally bullish on it, and my take has been we have to wait until it ramps up -- it took Wi-Fi years and years for it to become a hot consumer item (which of you were using Wi-Fi in 1991, back in the NCR WaveLAN days?), and the same challenge has existed for Bluetooth. But progress is being made.

"The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association responsible for Bluetooth wireless technology, today announced that the short-range wireless technology has made its way into a record number of consumer products. For the first time ever, total Bluetooth product shipments worldwide exceeded one million units per week, in 3rd quarter 2003, according to Matthew Towers of IMS Research which operates a Bluetooth semiconductor volume tracking service."

I'm sure the "naysayers" will point out that far more electronic gadgets are shipped per week in general than the number that have Bluetooth. However, the fact of the matter is that it's continuing to ramp up. Now can someone beat down Verizon's and Sprint's door with this information, please? :roll: