Later, when it came time to select a serious name, Bluetooth was to be replaced with either RadioWire or PAN (Personal Area Networking). Īccording to Bluetooth's official website,īluetooth was only intended as a placeholder until marketing could come up with something really cool. Upon discovering a picture of the Harald Bluetooth rune stone in the book Gwyn Jones's A History of the Vikings, Jim proposed Bluetooth as the codename for the short-range wireless program which is now called Bluetooth. Bengtsson's The Long Ships, a historical novel about Vikings and the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth. The name was inspired by a conversation with Sven Mattisson who related Scandinavian history through tales from Frans G. The name "Bluetooth" was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach of Intel, one of the founders of the Bluetooth SIG.
It is mainly used as an alternative to wire connections, to exchange files between nearby portable devices and connect cell phones and music players with wireless headphones. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Typically less than 10 m (33 ft), up to 100 m (330 ft).īluetooth 5.0: 40–400 m (100–1,000 ft) īluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances using UHF radio waves in the ISM bands, from 2.402 to 2.48 GHz, and building personal area networks (PANs). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue.
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