By Eileen Smith, PCWorld
Acer NeWeb expects to ship by mid-2000 the Blue-Connect, which provides plug-and-play wireless connectivity to Handspring's Visor, and compliance with the emerging Bluetooth technical standard.
Bluetooth is a low-power and short-range radio link technology that allows up to eight devices, such as portable PCs and mobile phones, to wirelessly communicate with each other. More important, it's affordable.
Blue-Connect could be the first marketed Bluetooth-enabled consumer electronics device to comply with Version 1.0 of the specification. Acer NeWeb, a division of the Acer Group, is making the leap through a partnership with Widcomm, a Bluetooth technology provider of wireless communication solutions. The companies made the announcement at the Comdex trade show here this week.
The Blue-Connect snaps onto the back of the handheld device. It conforms to the Springboard interface on the Visor PDA.
The Blue-Connect "beams" applications from Visor to Visor or from Visor to desktop and notebook using Blue-Share synchronization. You can also beam address-book entries and transfer images from Visor to digital cameras.
"We're going to be an Internet enabler in an Internet era," says Simon Lin, chief executive officer of the Acer Group. Lin called Bluetooth a major investment and said this partnership was a major step.
Hiep Pham, Widcomm's CEO, called Bluetooth technology the "evolution of the cellular system."
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