Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Big future for Bluetooth

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:49:14 -0500

Hmmmm?

While the In-Stat/MDR  research speaks to Bluetooth Chip Set shipment it does not address
the end user numbers.
Many of us have "Technology Enhancements" built in to our devices but how many of use make
full use of these "Technology Enhancements"?

Remember the Intel "MMX" Chip? Intel said they shipped millions of these chips but how
many of us actually used the "MMX" technology and where is it today.   I have an old
Laptop with MMX  I never saw any useful apps. Developers seemed to over look MMX and moved
on. Intel discontinued MMX shortly after its release.

Another example is handset makers now ship handsets with FM Broadcast radio capability
(With a $40 adapter) how many people are walking around listening to the radio on their
cell phone? Not many according to Nokia and Moto.
I say to the Bluetooth people show me the end user numbers.
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In-Stat MDR Forecasts Bright Future for Bluetooth
With recent, adjusted outlooks on shipments by vendors, and a gradual
expected up tick in the economy in 2003, high-tech market research firm
In-Stat/MDR expects final 2002 Bluetooth chip set shipments to surpass 35
million, for a growth rate of 250 percent. In-Stat MDR forecast that Bluetooth chip
sets will surge from 10.4 million to 510.0 million units from 2001 to 2006, a
five-year 118 percent compound annual growth rate, with silicon revenue rising to
over $1.8 billion in 2006. However, one of the biggest challenges that the industry
still faces is the education of consumers, as the benefits of Bluetooth need to be
marketed, rather than the technology itself. "This is no small task," said Joyce
Putscher, a director with In-Stat/MDR. "This means that training needs to occur
down to the retail channel level and with wireless carrier sales people.

Thursday, 16 January, 2003, 09:45 GMT
Big future for Bluetooth

Short-range radio could help you keep in touch
Despite the aura of gloom pervading the
computer market in 2002, one technology looks
like it had a good year.

A report out this week shows that Bluetooth,
the short-range radio system, experienced
dramatic growth over the last 12 months.

Once the final figures are collected, market
research firm In-Stat/MDR expects Bluetooth
chip shipments to be up 250% on 2001.

But the firm warns that hurdles still remain to
make Bluetooth fulfil its early promise and
become the standard way of getting gadgets
to swap data with each other.

Chip ship

The report from In-Stat expects final
shipments of Bluetooth chips to have
surpassed 35 million in 2002.

By 2006 In-Stat expects more than 510 million
Bluetooth chipsets to be shipped.

Much of this growth is due to the fact that the
short-range radio system is becoming a
standard addition to many mobile phones,
laptops and other gadgets.

This year Bluetooth will start to make an
appearance in expensive cars to enable people
to make phone calls while on the move, a shift
that In-Stat expects to significantly drive
take-up of the technology.

Bluetooth, named after a 10th century Danish
king, removes the need for wires to link up
devices, instead the wireless system lets
gadgets find each other automatically.

But In-Stat warned that work needed to be
done to educate potential users about the
benefits of Bluetooth. Too often, said the firm,
vendors emphasise the technology rather than
what it can do for people.

Without this work to educate consumers the
take-up of the technology could stutter,
warned the firm.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2660395.stm

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