Originally Posted by
AA2070
You are assigned about three square feet of space on an airplane. Why would you need to use a remote control?
Also, the rule on AA (and I suspect others) is that "you may use devices with wireless technology as long as the wireless feature may be turned off." I take this to include cellular technology, wifi, bluetooth, zigbee, etc etc etc.
My recollection of this announcement is actually to "cellular technology" rather than "wireless technology." If that's the case, then Bluetooth would seem to be allowed.
The max range of Bluetooth is so low that I cannot fathom how it could cause a problem. Of course, as evidenced by Boeing Connexion and inflight cell phone service coming to some airlines next year, neither do the things that are currently "prohibited."