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Technology Stocks : Bluetooth: from RF semiconductors to softw. applications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roy Glen who wrote (57)	11/15/1999 6:17:00 AM
From: Mats Ericsson	Respond to of 322

Bluetooth headset shown Comdex. (What Co's etc? - everyone inside silicon industry, you don't seen THE HYPE YET; apps like Bluetooth e-commerce, will come etc) Sweden's Ericsson Unveils 1st Headset With Bluetooth Radio Chip Stockholm, Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Ericsson AB, the world's third-largest maker of cellular phones, unveiled a headset that connects to a mobile phone by a radio link, its first consumer product with Bluetooth radio chip technology. The Swedish company, one of Bluetooth's initiators, expects to start selling the headset mid next year. The radio chip allows a cellular phone to be answered even though the phone is still in a pocket or a briefcase. The Bluetooth chip, now backed by more than 1,100 companies, runs over basic radio waves, allowing voice and data to travel without wires between headsets, phones, digital cameras, palmtop computers and other devices. Ericsson sees more than 100 million mobile phones using the chip in 2002. ''If you look around you, everything you see will be connected,'' said Jan Ahrenbring, head of marketing at Ericsson's mobile phone unit, in a statement. The headset was presented at Mobile Focus and COMDEX/Fall '99 in Las Vegas. Bluetooth's strength lies where infrared, which is currently used for wireless communication between devices, has had trouble. The chip allows connection between two products to pass through other objects -- something infrared can't do. The radio chip has a typical range of 10 meters. The initiators of Bluetooth also include Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest mobile phone maker; Intel Corp., the leading maker of computer chips; International Business Machines Corp., the top computer maker; and Toshiba Corp., the largest maker of notebook computers. The technology was introduced in May 1998.

To: Roy Glen who wrote (57)	11/15/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Mats Ericsson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 322

Wish I could be more extended someday.. I was out of this extended rally. It's interesting to see if PUMA a bit tanks after XTND news. MSFT is not a Bluetooth partner,(?) they build the own system which have same specs. Have you any vision or news Qcomm/Msft wireles/cellphoneprojekt. I'm hearting all the time The scandinavian opinions how WIN-CE is impossible media (too many technical problems) to be used in any phonelikedevice.