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Bluetooth Challenges Contract Manufacturers.(mobile communications technology)(Brief Article)

Bluetooth is a wireless, data transfer standard that allows devices to be brought into close proximity with each other to discover each other's presence and establish communications automatically. This technology (named for Danish King Harald Bluetooth) allows mobile phones, notebook PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other devices to communicate at speeds of up to 721 kilobits/second, without the need for numerous and inconvenient cable. It operates in the 2.45 GHz radio "free band" which uses frequency-hopping techniques to keep communications flowing even in spaces tha

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