Another Bluetooth Rant
Why don’t gadget manufacturers get it??
I think there’s some things that these folks have seriously missed.. Like the fact that blue-tooth can be utilized in so many ways that we haven’t even thought of yet.
Take these ideas for example:
+ A skype phone with blue-tooth support should, a) be attached to the PC & its skype via a blue-tooth wireless connection, b) have support for a wireless blue-tooth headset or headphones, c) be able to play music from the pc, which streams over the PC blue-tooth connection to the phone’s blue-tooth headset/headphones, d) be able to remote-control the PC via the blue-tooth connection, e) be capable of utilizing skype via a blue-tooth connected PC, or over
any available WIFI internet connection (whether secured or not).
+ A cellphone/wireless phone with blue-tooth support should also be capable of the same things as a skype phone.
+ Stereos including car-stereos with blue-tooth support should, a) be able to receive auxiliary audio via the blue-tooth connection, b) be able to have phone calls audio output routed to it for speaker-phone use, c) be able to simultaneously play one audio source over the connected speakers while also playing another over any number of connected blue-tooth headsets/headphones/wifi phones, d) be able to be remote-controlled by any wifi/skype phone or cell-phone.
+ iPods should have blue-tooth broadcast ability, as well as built-in FM transmission capability. Why not also include AM/FM reception and able to record it? Also able to record incoming blue-tooth audio, such as the blue-tooth stereo. (Would be handy when the stereo has XM Satellite Radio and the iPod doesn’t, or for recording speakerphone routed blue-tooth connected phone calls.)
Maybe some other ideas might be to make all appliances blue-tooth enabled for the purpose of remote-controlling them and creating automation tasks. For example, when the answering machine receives a call from you, and you press *55, the oven receives a blue-tooth signal and turns on and begins to bake the cake for a specific amount of time and then automatically shuts off in time to cool and not over-bake it.