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What is Bluetooth? Wireless has been around many years in the form of IR and RF, but it has always had limited usability. Various companies realized the need for a new wireless technology that was both cheap to make and didn’t require a lot of power. So came Bluetooth. Bluetooth was developed to allow short-range wireless communications to be used in many of your handheld devices. This technology would work across vendors and platforms, worldwide even! The developers imagined Bluetooth in our phones, palm devices, and even our PCs. Well they have done it. Bluetooth is supported by 2000 OEMs worldwide and there is over 1000 Bluetooth devices on store shelves to date, I even have two at home now! You may ask what does Bluetooth do? It allows the all Bluetooth devices to connect together and share information. The Bluetooth specification provides for voice and data transmission, normally 30’ meters, but can be extended to 400’. Envision mobile phones talking to your PC, your Palm-Pilot accessing the Internet through the phone in your pocket. That’s what Bluetooth does, that’s