However, that wasn’t the first Bluetooth phone to actually hit the stores (the T36 was canceled). The first Bluetooth accessoriesThe first-ever Bluetooth device was a wireless headset unveiled in 1999, which won the “Best of Show Technology Award” at COMDEX. The first-ever Bluetooth GPS receiver for mobile devicesThe first Bluetooth mice, keyboards and printers came out in the early 2000s too. Going furtherBluetooth 4.0, aka Bluetooth Low Energy, came in 2010 and wasn’t – wasn’t Bluetooth, we mean. By 2006 there were already 1 billion Bluetooth devices out and about with 10 million new ones joining them every week.

Source: The Nation May 16, 2021 19:07 UTC