Thursday, March 2, 2006
Many Owners of Bluetooth Devices Still Don't Use Bluetooth
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 08:00 AM
"Bluetooth is in an ever-growing number of devices. Last year, 315 million products containing Bluetooth chips for short-range wireless communication got shipped, according to Michael Foley, who runs the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, the standards organization that oversees the standard. This year, ten million items a week will get shipped. Getting people to use the technology, however, remains a challenge."
No doubt Bluetooth is becoming more and more ubiquitous. In my experiences, most all of the people I encounter professionally know what Bluetooth is (thanks mainly to the booming Bluetooth headset market). However, as the Bluetooth SIG noted, roughly about 30-50% of all Bluetooth devices are actually utilized for their Bluetooth capabilities. What makes matters worse in my opinion is that some phone carriers don't even allow you to use all of the Bluetooth capabilities such as dial-up networking or file transfer. It makes me wonder if Bluetooth will ever be accepted by the general public as something more than just a wireless headset technology.
No doubt Bluetooth is becoming more and more ubiquitous. In my experiences, most all of the people I encounter professionally know what Bluetooth is (thanks mainly to the booming Bluetooth headset market). However, as the Bluetooth SIG noted, roughly about 30-50% of all Bluetooth devices are actually utilized for their Bluetooth capabilities. What makes matters worse in my opinion is that some phone carriers don't even allow you to use all of the Bluetooth capabilities such as dial-up networking or file transfer. It makes me wonder if Bluetooth will ever be accepted by the general public as something more than just a wireless headset technology.
