Innovative Review Report: Bluetooth Accessories

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September 25th, 2022
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Innovative Review Report: Bluetooth Accessories
Introduction
Innovation in product development refers to the process of creating new products that improve and meet the customer’s overall needs. Innovation has played a significant role in business and society throughout history because it can help firms and businesses create space in a crowded market. Identifying the needs can help a company find a targeted market and satisfy the customers in new and exciting ways. Innovative products such as Bluetooth accessories have become a regular part of users’ mobile experience in modern days. The ubiquity of Bluetooth technology has made it find varied applications ranging from steaming audio with wireless speakers and headphones and sharing files over the air to tethering Internet connections and pairing gaming consoles and keyboards. Bluetooth-enabled accessories have become useful by the day, which is remarkable given that the technology had a limited scope when it was first developed almost three decades ago (Triggs and Wankhede np). Today, Bluetooth serves as a convenient piece of technology that frees users from the chains of twisted cables and has become the industry standard for wireless connectivity between devices and accessories. Before the launch of Bluetooth technology, early mobile phones connected to computers using weird proprietary connectors (micro USB, USB-C, Nokia Pop-Port, Siemens Slim-Lumberg connector, Apple iPod Dock connector, or On The Go), which replaced the data cables or Universal Serial Bus (USB) (GSMArena np). However, Bluetooth development began much earlier before the USB was the norm. Unlike USB, Bluetooth promised seamless data transfers wirelessly and is much better than infrared technology. Available as a wireless option for synching data between devices, infrared provided a near-solution to the problem that Bluetooth would solve. One key limitation of infrared was that it required users to point or aim two devices at each other during every instance of data transfer. With these challenges of cables and infrared, Bluetooth was thought to be a solution to data transfers common in many Bluetooth-enabled accessories. Contrary to infrared, Bluetooth accessories were omnidirectional but worked within a radius of 30ft, and they did not have amazing speeds and a wide-range advantage. Nevertheless, developments in Bluetooth technology saw the introduction of the first-ever Bluetooth-enabled hands-free headset in 1999 that won the “Best of Show Technology Award” at COMDEX (GSMArena np). Other accessories followed, including the first Bluetooth car kits in 2001 which received mixed reactions over the use of phones while driving in many countries, including the UK (GSMArena np). Overall, the development of Bluetooth technology and Bluetooth-enabled accessories was innovative as it introduced new ways for users to interact with their devices hands-free as well as transfer data without using annoying cables, infrared or weird standards.
History
While the first Bluetooth accessories appeared in 1999, Dr. Jaap Haartsen had already conceived the Bluetooth standard in 1994 while working at Ericsson (Triggs and Wankhede np). In 1998...