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Date:  Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:07:16 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] what's the status of...

On 04/13/2004 01:20 pm, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote :

>On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:58:00 -0700, Neil Waldhauer wrote:
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>>Good Question! I've been using B driver supplied by Jens Glathe, and it works
>>in all kinds of cafes and other places. I have not yet seen one place with A or
>>G. What comes after G?
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>how would you know? it Could be "G" since it's interoperational with "B".....so you could be on "G" network and not 
>know it. 
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If you look at any of the "hotspot-in-a-box" outfits, they're all using 
802.11b gear.

8<------------ snip ----------->8

>>>2. Anyone decide they needed bluetooth?
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>>>
>>I get the feeling that the "converged appliance", or phone plus camera plus
>>pocket organizer, will use bluetooth. I'm going to want one, and I'll probably
>>need bluetooth then. About a year, don't you think?
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>I think that after what, 5 or more years, it is about to really pop out on the scene. The cars are coming out with 
>bluetooth enabled connections for doing cell phone calls could be the first wide spread application beyond 
>earphones, although I wonder why you would want to put a transmitter next to head when you might be afraid of your 
>cell phone's transmitter is sort of a strange subsitution.  But will it go beyond being a PDA/Cell phone sync 
>protocol?
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I think the promise of BT is in the service industries, such as 
appliance repair and auto mechanics. Walk up to the ailing machine with 
a Palm, and the refridge tells it where the freon leak is. Likewise, 
have you seen where the auto manufacturers have located some of their 
diagnostic ports these days? Wow! A wireless connection there would be a 
real help.

The other place for PANs (personal area networks) is in educational 
settings, where 802.11x signals would be stomping all over each other 
competing for bandwidth. Because of the localized nature of BT, each 
room could more or less be on its own separate network, without 
"bleeding" into other signals.

Anyway, just my unsolicited two and a half cents. PMFJI...

-- 
Lewis
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