Wireless Transfers

If you own a smartphone, then you would know that there are two types of data transmitting and receiving ways that are separate from regular phone signals from cell towers. I bring this up in a sort of celebration of the passing of older technology.

The advent of both technologies has revolutionized data transmission in their own right. The main difference between Bluetooth and Infrared is line of sight. This means that a Bluetooth device does not have to be facing another Bluetooth device to be able to interact with it whereas Infrared does. That TV remote which never works unless you point it directly at the TV...yea, thats Infrared.

The reason Infrared was adopted back in 1917 until present is because it is almost dirt cheap to utilize and also has almost no maintenance costs associated with it in civil use. Point and Click was the idea.

However, times have changed a bit since then. Once data transmission was included in the picture, infrared was just not fast enough....at all. And just like that, almost like a knight in shining armor appears Ericsson and a host of different companies including IBM, Toshiba, Intel, Microsoft, etc., with this new technology initially named multi-communicator link.

taken from: pioneer.co.uk

The beauty of Bluetooth is that it does almost all the work for you in terms of connecting to the device and figuring out what the device is and how to control it. Sending a picture or ringtone to a friend now is as easy as connecting the phones via Bluetooth and hitting send.

The future of wireless technology is in Bluetooth's adoption of Ultra-wideband radio technology (UWB) that is meant to increase speeds of transfer up to 480Mbps while still maintaining low power consumption. Pretty soon, HD video on your cell phone will be standard.