Bluetooth to me is one of the most convenient technologies I use as it allows me to get rid of the cord from my mobile and desk phones. I am surprised actually that everyone doesn’t use a stereo bluetooth headset – at gyms around the country it seems like one out of 10 music listeners have given up their typically white cords in favor of new technology.<\/p>\n
Frankly I just don’t get it but am hoping that the new bluetooth 4.0 standard which is more miserly with power will make a good technology even more useful. It is worth pointing out the SIG wants you to refer to it as Bluetooth Smart Ready<\/a>.<\/p>\n In theory the power consumption is so low<\/a> that you can get a year out of a device using a button size battery – now that’s low-power.<\/p>\n As you might imagine, applications in home automation and the medical field<\/a> are prime examples of where such a low-power wireless technology will shine.<\/p>\n Thanks to Kickstarter there may soon be an automotive app<\/a> – one which syncs with your iPhone 4S which was the first phone<\/a> to support bluetooth 4.0 BTW. The solution constantly updates your car’s location via a small device which is connected to your automobile. It then allows you to find your vehicle when you need to – let’s say after that trip to the mall around holiday time when your car is lost in a sea of steel and paint somewhere in a 100 acre lot.<\/p>\n But more interestingly this new bluetooth spec means there is some new competition in the M2M space and technologies like NFC and perhaps ZigBee may lose some marketshare as a result.<\/p>\n I am not holding my breath for the world to go bluetooth when it comes to stereo headphones but perhaps they will at least embrace it for a wealth of other activities which make their lives better. <\/p>\n Hat tip Richard Sprague<\/a> who retweeted Scott Jenson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bluetooth to me is one of the most convenient technologies I use as it allows me to get rid of the cord from my mobile and desk phones. I am surprised actually that everyone doesn’t use a stereo bluetooth headset – at gyms around the country it seems like one out of 10 music listeners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,158,178,170,171,181,172,196,199,176,187,213,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}