What is bluetooth?

Need Bluetooth help? You hear the term thrown around more and more these days - "bluetooth enabled", "wireless blue tooth headphone". What is Bluetooth? Let's start with a few definitions: "A global initiative by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba to set a standard for cable-free connectivity between mobile phones, mobile PCs, handheld computers and other peripherals. It will use short-range radio links in the 2.gGHZ Instrumentation Scientific and Medical (ISM) "free band". "A wireless connection that enables devices to exchange information." "Bluetooth is the name given to a radio technology making transmission of signals over short distances between telephones, computers and other devices, like household appliances, without the use of wires." Put more simply, Bluetooth is a wireless protocol for sending information between electronic devices. Below, we will show you some key Bluetooth products and implementations.

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It doesn't take much imagination to think about where some wireless technology would help. Ever look behind your DVD player, TV, VCR, and speaker system, and see that tangle of wires and cords? What a joke. How about making all those components Bluetooth-enabled, and the wires disappear? How many times has your walkman or iPod or MP3 player yanked the earphones off your head when the cord got caught on something? Wouldn't it be nice to have wireless Bluetooth Headphones, and no wires? How about all those cradles and docking stations for connecting for camera, PDA, or MP3 player to your desktop computer? Wouldn't you rather have a Bluetooth digital camera or printer that connects wirelessly, all by itself, to your computer?

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One of the first places Bluetooth products appeared was in cellphones and wireless headsets. That way you can drop your phone on the car seat, in your pocket, wherever, and just wear the tiny earpiece headset to talk. It is annoying seeing all these people walk around, seemingly talking to themselves, when their phone is really concealed in their purse or pocket, but that's how BLuetooth works. Nokia and Motorola both make popular Bluetooth headsets for cellphone use. One of the best low-cost Bluetooth headsets is the Nokia HS-36W, at just $39. It offers handsfree control for your cell phone, and weighs less than 3/4 of an ounce. Battery life is up to 4 hours of talk time, 4 days of standby. It works with most Nokia phones, including: N70, N90, N91, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6230, 6230i, 6600, 6620, 6670, 6682, 6820, 6822, 7280, 7610, 8801, 9300, 9500 Communicator, N-Gage. One of the most popular Motorola Bluetooth headsets is the H300 ($49), which uses a single AAA battery for power, which gives up to 30 hours of talk time. The H500 models come in a variety of colors and run $69. The popular Motorola RAZR phones use Bluetooth as well. The Jabra BT500 is another popular Bluetooth headset for cellphones.

Bluetooth Computers and Electronics

Outside the world of cellphones, Bluetooth is also making inroads into a variety of other products. A number of the HP photo printers are BLuetooth-enabled, like the Photosmart 375 Compact Photo Printer, or the Photosmart 8150 Photo Printer. This allows you to connect to either a Bluetooth digital camera or a Bluetooth computer to send pictures for printing - no cables, no wires, no complications. You can also print pictures from your Bluetooth mobile phone. Canon also makes some Bluetooth printers, like the i80 Bubble Jet printer. If you are looking for a listing of Bluetooth products, stop by eweek.com. They review over 300 Bluetooth products. Finally, stop by BeHandsFree.com for all the latest Bluetooth accessories. Keep yours eyes open - in the coming 18 months you will see more and more Bluetooth products, from mobile electronics to home electronics to general computing. As components continue to shrink and costs continue to fall, wirelessly connectivity will seem like an absolute no-brainer a few years out, and we'll wonder how we ever survived with all these horrible cables and wires!

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