Jon Baer wrote: > Well I have to say the fact that SE is dropping Bluetooth is a bit > of a shock
I don't think Sony Ericsson is dropping Bluetooth from their telephones. Are they? What's happening is that Ericsson (half owner of Sony Ericsson) is closing a subsidiary for designing its own Bluetooth chips and chip modules (Ericsson Technology Licensing, http://www.ericsson.com/bluetooth/ ). Bluetooth is an industry standard now and I guess Sony Ericsson can buy chips from Korea and Taiwan just like anybody else. If there is any pattern to Ericsson's actions, they tend to keep products that generate subscription business (I call this B2T or business-to-telcos) and drop products that become commodities. Sony also followed this pattern when they teamed up with Ericsson to make telephones and then dropped their line of PDAs. Lars Aronsson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aronsson Datateknik -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
