Strategic Partnership Will Bring Bluetooth-Enabled Devices With 1.0 Compliance Specification to Market This Year
Psion Dacom PLC, a market leader in mobile networking, Tuesday announced it has partnered with WIDCOMM Inc., a world leader in short-range wireless communications and Bluetooth networking.
The companies have entered a partnership agreement outlining Psion Dacom's use of WIDCOMM's Bluetooth software protocol stacks and Bluetooth reference designs based on the latest 1.0 Bluetooth specification for wireless data transmission. Psion Dacom will license both WIDCOMM's design for a PC card to Bluetooth-enable laptop computers and WIDCOMM's design for an adapter to Bluetooth-enable PCs via USB.
"Our focus on user-friendly product designs coupled with WIDCOMM's expertise in Bluetooth technology will make seamless connectivity a reality for consumers this year," said Lionel Wolovitz, chief technology officer at Psion Dacom.
Psion Dacom will manufacture the products for integration by leading worldwide PC OEMs.
"Our partnership affords WIDCOMM the opportunity to leverage the established channel presence and demonstrated reliability of Psion Dacom," said Hiep Pham, president & chief executive officer of WIDCOMM. "This will further support our mission of wirelessly connecting people to one another and to the Internet."
The Bluetooth PC cards and Bluetooth USB adapters will likely be available in the third quarter of this year. Exact price points are not yet determined.
WIDCOMM established an early leadership position in the Bluetooth arena by demonstrating a working Bluetooth communication module for PDAs as early as October of 1999 at the Fall Internet show in New York. WIDCOMM will demonstrate further advances in its technology at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, June 13-16, Booth 63.
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