New Spec Connects Phones, Cars
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By allNetDevices Staff
October 15, 2001
The trade organization supporting development of Bluetooth technology said Monday that it has developed a definition about how the short-range wireless technology should work with the use of mobile phones in cars.
The Bluetooth SIG's Car Working Group released the definition as part of a new hands-free profile. The profile is expected to the adopted by the entire Bluetooth SIG membership soon and prototype products are expected by the end of this year, according to the organization.
The profile will enable products that implement the Bluetooth specification to automatically establish a connection between a phone brought into the car and the car's hands-free system.
In an announcement, the group said that the hands-free profile is the first of several application-level specifications that the working group is expected to deliver, although it provided no details about what those enhancements to the Bluetooth specification will be.
