Bluetooth Features

 

• Bluetooth is wireless and automatic. You don't have to keep track of cables, connectors, and connections, and you don't need to do anything special to initiate communications. Devices find each other automatically and start conversing without user input, expect where authentication is required; for example, users must log in to use their email accounts.
• Bluetooth is inexpensive. Market analysts peg the cost to incorporate Bluetooth technology into a PDA, cell phone, or other product at around $20 now, and say that it could fall to as little as $5 per unit.
• The ISM band that Bluetooth uses is regulated, but unlicensed. Governments have converged on a single standard, so it's possible to use the same devices virtually wherever you travel, and you don't need to obtain legal permission in advance to begin using the technology.
• Bluetooth handles both data and voice. Its ability to handle both kinds of transmissions simultaneously makes possible such innovations as a mobile hands-free headset for voice with applications that print to fax, and that synchronize the address books on your PDA, your laptop, and your cell phone.
• Signals are omni-directional and can pass through walls and briefcases.  Communicating devices don't need to be aligned and don't need an unobstructed line of sight.
• Bluetooth uses frequency hopping. Its spread spectrum approach greatly reduces the risk that communications will be intercepted.