Comments on: WAVEclip Brings Bluetooth to Palm V

its been almost two years since i heard about blue tooth and good thing its coming out for palm. although i wont be using it, i'm sure many business users will be intergrating it into their office. hopefully nexxt years palm will inegrate it into palm os5 and be able to be used with the new g3 phone format coming out in the next year or so.
chris ;]

Personally I find having Bluetooth is a feature much more useful to consumers than to business users. The reason is Bluetooth's short range, necessitating a lot of base stations to be nearby, or to have a cellular device similarly Bluetooth equiped handy.

However, I do wish WAVEclip every success in launching their Bluetooth solution. It's great someone is finally doing something after all that hype that's been floating around year in and year out.

Now's waiting for phone companies to roll out Bluetooth phones and services!

A note of congartulations to Sunderland for coming up with a tangible Bluetooth solution for the Palm. Unfortunately, I don't see it being a "low-cost" alternative to what IrDA can already do; $320 isn't low-cost in any measure personally to me. At that price level, I'd rather get another m500 as a backup to my existing Palm.

Early days though

I've been on a bluetooth beta test for the last month or so, and this technology screams for HotSyncing. We're at the chicken and the egg stage as this point, but I can see where this could be very big.

Although it's expensive, this is the first offering and it's primarily because you have to have two devices. On the beta, they had to send two cards so that we could test, because there's nothing else out there with Bluetooth capability.

Sunderland Technologies sent me a picture of the WAVEclip. It looks small enough that it might be something I'd carry around attached to my Palm all the time. Be sure to click on the picture for a close to life-sized version.

Also, they said they'd send me a copy for review when the m500 version was available. I'm looking forward to taking this thing for a test drive.

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Palm Infocenter

Check out www.infosync.en for the release of Bluetooth & GPRS phones from Nokia, Ericsson & Siemens. Looks like the rest of the world will get these before the Americans unless you're using GSM there.