Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
John Yunker is president of Byte Level Research. He closely tracks emerging wireless technologies and their impact on consumers and carriers alike. Over the years he has written a number of major reports on technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular technologies.
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Here's a very good blog about how Bluetooth appears to be not only hanging in there, but succeeding rather nicely. Perhaps it was just a matter of getting those unit costs low enough so that vendors no longer hesitate to embed it within devices.
John, I'd argue by contrast that we're on top of the curve and that Bluetooth is about to be both more widely spread than before and never closer to being obsolete.
Within two years, I would guess everything that CAN will have Bluetooth in it. But I will also guess it's not easier to use. By 2007, however, there will be a host of early adopter devices using UWB, 802.11n, and ZigBee, all of which individually have particular advantages.
So I wouldn't buy a new Bluetooth device today unless I needed it for maximum utility over the next two years.
I use Bluetooth *all the time* so I'm not a sceptic about its utility. But every plus it has will be converted to a triple-plus in other technology. Every minus is already solved in other technology. I mean, "pairing"? For chrissakes.
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