Re: UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #599

[will rowan]

Tom,


from Ericsson's advertorial (they invented Bluetooth):

The Mobile Internet


"Cyber wallet goes on trial

The wireless wallet looks and feels like an ordinary wallet for bills and

coins. The big difference is that it's also packed with state of the art

technology.

There's a built-in card reader for credit cards; and a built in Bluetooth

enabled transmitter, so the card reader can communicate directly with any

Bluetooth-enabled mobile terminal or phone."


Ok, so it's only a concept. But bear with them.


   * With Bluetooth, you won't have a cable between your phone and earpiece.

   * Which means that you don't have to take your phone out to take a call.

   * Which means that your e-wallet doesn't need you to take the phone out

to

     make a transaction.

   * And e cash enabled phones have been on trial for over a year.

   * So expect to see a mobile phone that can carry out m-commerce

     transactions in (say ) 12 - 18 months.


The start point for this thread was what's going to make m commerce take

off.

3G brings big bandwith to mobiles: Bluetooth hooks them into local networks.

Both are important to developing m commerce. Both is made more powerful by

the

other.


But since it's all in the future. 'probably'


regards


Will Rowan


Tom Hume wrote:


> At 22:01 15/08/2000 +0100, UKNM Digest wrote:

> > > Bluetooth is a completely separate technology. Bluetooth and WAP fit

> > > together as well as Bluetooth and FTP.

> >Yes they are separate technologies. Working together, though, for example

> >Bluetooth enables a wireless device to become networked,

>

> Bluetooth is (initially) just a replacement for cables - connecting a

> device to other devices which are very close. To connect to the internet,

> other technologies are appropriate (GSM/GPRS/etc)

>

> >which completes the

> >loop and turns phones from mobile communicators to mobile computers, with

> >the attendant cpapbilities. (& since it's all in the future, I'll add

> >'probably' to that)

>

> Phones already have bandwidth to them. Bluetooth doesn't change anything

> wrt phone capabilities.

>

> The only situation I can see Bluetooth providing internet bandwidth is by

> enabling a device (e.g. an MP3 player) to connect to a phone - which then

> in turn connects to the internet.


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