10 Years After Bluetooth: What’s Next?
April 13th, 2008So what’s next for Bluetooth ten years after it’s first introduction? According to an article at MSNBC,
Perhaps the most aggravating aspect of Bluetooth has been the pairing process that’s involved in the initial setup of getting two devices to “talk” to each other.
“The pairing process has always been a little bit cumbersome,” said Anne Raaen Rasmussen, acting general manager of the mobile business unit at GN Netcom, which makes Jabra headsets.
“It has been illogical, the way you had to enter a four-digit code,” she said.
A new Bluetooth specification, 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), approved last summer by the Bluetooth SIG, adds secure simple pairing — and eliminates the need to enter a code.
Other areas where you may see more utilization of Bluetooth technology include medical monitoring and entertainment. With higher speed data transfer, Bluetooth devices could stream video to your wireless device. How cool is that?
