Bluetooth Momentum Growing, Despite Delays

Allied Business Intelligence has released a study that indicates that the use of Bluetooth will continue to grow strongly over the next several years, desite what it refers to as "recent market delays". While they project that only 56 million Bluetooth-enabled devices will be sold in 2001, look for over 1.4 billion nodes by 2005.

Back in June, both Palm Inc. and Silicon Wave demonstrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity for Palm PDAs.

"A variety of players are looking at adding wireless connectivity to their products and are realizing that Bluetooth technology's promise of a low-power and low-cost solution is ideal," said ABI Director of Residential & Networking Technologies and author of the report, Navin Sabharwal.

However, Mr. Sabharwal cautions that the phase in of Bluetooth will be gradual. "We are unlikely to see a significant volume of Bluetooth-enabled devices until mid-2001, and the market will only begin to accelerate in 2002," says Sabharwal. "Lack of inexpensive silicon, interoperability problems and limited applications could serve to dampen the market in the early phase, but as these issues are addressed, Bluetooth adoption by equipment vendors and actual use by consumers should be robust."

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