Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles via a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
Bluetooth is in a variety of new products such as phones, printers, modems, and headsets. Bluetooth is acceptable for situations when two or more devices are in close proximity with each other and don't require high bandwidth. Bluetooth is most commonly used with phones and hand-held computing devices, either using a Bluetooth headset or transferring files from phones/PDAs to computers. Since Bluetooth uses short-range radio frequencies, it is not as effective for setting up networks that can be accessed from remote locations as Wi-Fi is.
We are Bluetooth experts and are members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
We were able to develop an implementation of the Bluetooth Dialup Networking Profile for the BlackBerry called Pulse from interface specification documents by leveraging our past experience in the 1394 trade association. We have similar leveraged the same resources to develop Hands Free Profile implementations during our own internal research.
