It was appropriate that the name “Bluetooth” be given to the technology of Scandinavian origin and prophetic that as many as 3000 companies would be united in producing Bluetooth enabled products.

Currently the market for devices equipped with Bluetooth short-range wireless technology is experiencing a continued period of  growth, and it has been reported that Bluetooth shipment figures have broken the three million units per week barrier for the first time, representing a rapid increase from two million devices per week over a three months period. An impressive figure by any standard. Further CSR, the single-chip wireless systems company, recently announced “that it has shipped 50 million Bluetooth chips since its foundation.” (CAMBRIDGE, England --Business Wire-- September 7, 2004) 

Certainly, the cause of Bluetooth has been helped immeasurably by the growing number of jurisdictions which have (with good reason) banned the use of handheld cell phones while driving cars and this is one area where Bluetooth excels.

Bluetooth’s cell phone hand free system is second to none and regardless of what may come and go Bluetooth is here to stay.

Toyota offer an integrated hands-free cell phone and navigation system in many of  their vehicles at no extra cost to its customers. Further, Toyota plans to expand the Bluetooth technology to a greater number of their cars in the near future. Recently Ford Motors contracted Sprint to provide Bluetooth enabled hands-free cell phones in North American cars which indicates that the Bluetooth technology has even now surpassed all expectations. Thus, Bluetooth wireless technology has become a global  standard and specification for short range wireless connectivity and it is easy to foresee that Bluetooth technology will  likely  be a standard of communication in millions of cellular or mobile phones, PCs, laptops, and a wide range of other electronic devices. Of course, the primary goal of the developers was to provide in Bluetooth a low cost, short range wireless link to replace cables, enabling anyone to set up a personal area network (PAN). Mobility was what it was all about. Any Bluetooth enabled device can be connected to any other Bluetooth enabled device with little effort. And although different developers have come up with some very original uses, the main strength (and perhaps weakness) is Bluetooth’s  ability to communicate effortlessly at short range.  It uses the 2.4 Ghz part of the wireless spectrum and although it is said that the range can be extended to 100 metres, it is at its best when used under the ten metre range.