Windows Phone Thoughts: Mobile Phones Should Boost Bluetooth

"Bluetooth short-range wireless technology, in the spotlight this week at the Bluetooth Developers Conference, in San Jose, California, hasn't yet met some earlier expectations but finally is gaining a foothold that could help it fulfill its original promise. Standardized in 1998 and envisioned as a communications cloud that would link a variety of computing and communications devices in a "personal area network" around a desk or a person, Bluetooth just this year became available in a large number of shipping products. Most of those products revolve around one type of device: mobile phones. However, vendors and analysts said those phone-related products already are helping to foster wider Bluetooth adoption by pushing up volumes and driving down component prices."