https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/tags/bluetooth/Recent content in Bluetooth on Rik Kisnah - BlogHugoenTue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/bluetooth-prototypes-journey-2002-2003/Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/bluetooth-prototypes-journey-2002-2003/Wireless Phones (2002) Bluetooth standard existed since 1998. By 2002, nobody had actually shipped it in a phone. At Motorola, we saw the real opportunity: wireless headphones. No more headset cords tangled in your pocket. But standards look clean on paper. In reality? Manufacturers interpreted the spec differently. Pairing was flaky. Range was spotty. We spent months debugging why Bluetooth worked 70% of the time instead of 100%. We’d get two devices talking, then change something in our protocol stack, and suddenly they wouldn’t.