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Old Aug 14, 2003 | 7:45 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by winkydink:
The vast majority of Nokia's don't have Bluetooth either and they seem to sell a lot of phones.

Bottom line is it's a $10 chip set which is a lot when your total BOM is around $55.

Don't get me wrong, I use a BT-enabled phone (T68i) myself, but the majority of the market doesn't seem to be interested.

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1) BT Chipsets are being flogged for as little as $2.27 at the moment

2) As Nick says, they don't even have a BT stack in their software so any company that DOES want BT can't even use it...

3) Even though BT data is still a major PITA many people want to use BT headsets.
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