Well, it looks like RIM is now widening their turf from a straight e-mail device and getting into the PDA/smart phone/all-in-one mobile device market. RIM is going to release some new Blackberries that will all have Bluetooth. One model, the 7130E, will have 802.11b, a QWERTY-landscape keyboard and camera. Wow! I remember I had a discussion with a friend of mine who was working at RIM about why RIM Blackberries didn't include Bluetooth, I thought it would be easy to put in, so you could use your Bluetooth headset with the Blackberry phone or transfer data to another Bluetooth device, like swapping contacts, or syncing with your desktop.
I find Bluetooth to be a great feature, of course, I was into Bluetooth in 2000 when I was working at Classwave Wireless in Toronto. I was an advocate for Bluetooth then, I envisioned having Bluetooth in every electronic device and that infrared would be killed because of Bluetooth. Well, my prediction was wrong in terms of infrared being non-existent, but you do see new devices have integrated Bluetooth and it does make sense. I can transfer my pictures from my Bluetooth Motorola RAZR cell phone to my laptop, sure it's slow, but it works and it's instantaneous. I did this while blogging at the CASCON conference.
So now this makes me think about how you have two camps, an integrated all-in-one device, or a device that does one thing. There's pros and cons to both. You can have one device that works well on one thing but then have to have different devices for different functions, eventually carrying them on a belt or pocket and becoming like BatMan. Well, that's what I have right now, that's why they call me GadgetMan.
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