Subject: Bluetooth LAN headset realeased (Kelley)..
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 033751 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......This LAN technology (like so much of the Blue World technology)
seems to be coming faster than advance "safety" research can cope with....
We seem to live at a time when: "if you can build it -- build it ... then
worry about the consequences later," controls our lives.....
In a TRUE democracy ... that need NOT be the way things are done.....
But, we don't live in a democracy anymore..... We live in an oligarchy --
controlled by the special interests (the BIG $$$$$$ corporations.....)
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website
...................People are more important than profits.................
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:10:33 -0800
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Bluetooth LAN headset realeased
Roy:
I would be interested in knowing what the EMF-List thinks about one of the
first "Bluetooth" local area network applications to hit the
marketplace. What is meant about the statement that the new headset
"functions like an infrared connection?"
Libby
CNN Financial Network- Industry Watch, Nov. 23, 1999
Ericsson Models Hands Go Free
Source: South China Morning Post
Ericsson has unveiled two of its forthcoming flagship
mobile- phone products -
a Bluetooth-enabled headset-equipped unit and the world's
first quad-mode
mobile, according to on-line news agency Newsbytes.
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless local area network -
operating up to a range
of 10 metres - that functions like infrared connections.
The difference is that Bluetooth-enabled devices do not
need line of sight
connections to communicate, and the data speeds can be up
to two megabits
per second - enough for voice and limited video
communications.
The Bluetooth Headset, as Ericsson calls its device, is
billed as the industry's
first hands-free accessory to incorporate Bluetooth
technology.
The device functions as a lightweight wireless headset
that users wear like a
regular PC earpiece-microphone combination, but with a
Bluetooth chipset that
communicates with a Bluetooth plug-in device that, in
turn, connects to an
Ericsson mobile phone.
Ericsson says that, when the phone rings, users can
answer by simply
pressing a key on the headset. Outgoing calls are enabled
using
voice-recognition technology after a key is pressed on
the headset.
The Bluetooth headset weighs 20 grams and can operate up
to 10 metres from
an Ericsson T28, T28 World and R320 cellular handset.
Ericsson's other mobile offering is the R280LX handset.
The phone supports
TDMA (time division multiple access) 800 MHz and 1900 MHz
wavebands, as
well as 800 MHz analogue and packet data services.
Ericsson says the phone supports data speeds of up to
19,200 bits per second
and has been optimised for use on AT&T's One Rate plan by
the inclusion of
support for digital multi-network technology.
In the handset are a browser e-mail interface, support
for two- way messaging
and EZ-Read menus.
The 170-gram handset runs for up to four hours in active
(talk) mode, and 135
hours on standby.
The unit is 12.7 centimetres by 5.08cm and it is 2.54cm
thick. The phone has
an integrated microbrowser from Phone.com, and supports
the Tegic T9 text
input system.
Publication date: Nov 23, 1999
© 1999, NewsReal, Inc.
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
aka ~ Ad Hoc Association of Parties Concerned about
the FCC's Radiofrequency Radiation Health and Safety Rules
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