My Technology

In the United States, Bluetooth gets absolutely no
respect.  It is nonetheless, becoming increasingly more
widespread in notebooks, PDAs, and especially cell
phones.  Bluetooth will provide wireless customers a
solution to transmit small amounts of information over brief
distances.

Now, Bluetooth is facing stiff competitors from
new wireless technology.  Known as UWB or
Ultra Wideband, it promises knowledge transfer of up
to 480 MB a second - whereas most current Bluetooth
gadgets switch information up to 721 KB a second.

In the meanwhile, Bluetooth gadgets are absolutely
cropping up.  Beneath, we will have a look at some of
the equipment supplied with Bluetooth technology.

Speaking to the dashboard
When pairing it with a mobile phone, the CCM Blue
Warrior automotive equipment turns into an important speaker telephone that
plugs into the power adapter of your vehicle.  The
noise cancelling microphone will scale back background
noise efficiently, with the big buttons making
adjusting the speaker volume a snap.  Although
the Blue Warrior is far from horny or sleek, it is
very practical.

Tiny tuning field
Half MP3 participant and half hands free telephone, the
compact and lightweight Sony HBM-30 is a lovely
gadget that permits you to accept calls with minimal
interruption of your tunes.  While you get an incoming
name it'll robotically pause your music, then
you converse into the inbuilt microphone that you simply
can put on round your neck or clip to your clothes.

The pen
With Nokia's SU-1B digital pen, you possibly can doodle and
make hand written notes in ink on a special pad
then transmit them from the pad to your Bluetooth
phone.  Being a substitute for typing on a cell
telephone keypad, the pen is very helpful, although a
expensive tool from MMS fans.

Snapshots
If you wish to make slide shows together with your digicam
pictures, the Nokia SU-2 image viewer will let you
disply your pictures on a TV or projector.  Simply
hook this square gray system to your TV's input
with the inbuilt cable, then beam the photographs
to the SU-2 from your Bluetooth enabled telephone and
the picture fest will begin.

This device is a snap to set up and use, although
it shows resolutions of as much as 640 by 480.  If
you will have a newer telephone that takes excessive decision
pictures, you won't be capable to use the Nokia SU-2
picture viewer.

Take into accout, the 640 by 480 pixel photographs will
seem blocky on TV screens, it doesn't matter what you
do.  In case your cellphone can ship batches of photos, you
can create a slide present - although Nokia claims
you should use sequentially beamed photographs as well.

MF