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Skype Journal: Skype and Bluetooth?

February 20, 2005 10:55 PM

Here's an interesting point of view on Skype and Bluetooth. Bluetooth hasn't been the easiest to get working with laptops and PDA's. This "vent" catches the main point. It's just too hard and takes too much playing with to get many bluetooth apps to work.

Personally my slant is, and I hope, that Skype might instead bring about the end of the Bluetooth standards. Various revisions have not made it reliable and it would be better to seek a new standard to emerge with a different name that people can look for and trust when purchasing. A standard that aims to bind on the first-time of use 97% of the devices people wish to link, rather than a probable 5%. If the reliable wi-fi (and the operative “fi” means fidelity!) standards do progress towards the inevitable goals of wi-max (and some suggest it may leapfrog 3G as a technology), why not blue-max or blue-fi! Instead of a useless and therefore rather “toothless” range of bluetooth standards we have become locked into at present? (by e-mail)

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