The problems start to come in with more sophisticated devices such as laptops, printers and even digital cameras. The devices are from consumer-electronics makers in Asia and in mobile phones now circulating in Europe, McCamon said.
I'll give an example: If you look at digital cameras two years ago, most had proprietary methods to connect with the PC - special cables, special interfaces. I'm not suggesting that consumer electronics companies will go away.
Consumer electronics has become the rallying cry for the PC community. A number of announcements from these companies will come out of the Consumer Electronics Show, which begins today in Las Vegas with a keynote speech from Microsoft chairman Bill...
The fact that NFC should always be very intuitive makes it ideal for transferring data such as digital images between, for example, cameras and TV sets, at speeds of up to 424Kbps. When Bluetooth started to be incorporated in devices in volume...
He said: "The cost performance on the 4G business model and the throughput gains, plus the cost of putting these chips into cameras, gaming devices and other consumer electronics, is what makes it different from EV-DO Revision A.
It's found in a variety of consumer electronics, from mobile phones to laptops and hands-free headsets, with around 500 million Bluetooth-enabled devices shipped by the end of 2005. However, there is a fear that the open nature of mobile...