©Joia Shillingford 2007


Mobile speakers

A bluetooth speaker from Sony Ericsson's press launch at Scala in London's Kings Cross earlier this month. The speaker can play music stored on a Sony Ericsson phone without wires having to be attached.

It can't be that far away, though. Bluetooth devices linked to mobile phones usually need to be within a range of 10 metres. The Portable Bluetooth Speaker MBS-100 can play for five hours on a rechargeable battery and is available this quarter (Q4 2007).

©Joia Shillingford 2007


Bluetooth watch tells more than the time

Want to avoid playing with your mobile in meetings? Or feel it is too far down your bag to fish it out. Sony Ericsson customers can discreetly look at a Bluetooth watch to see who has called or if they have a new text message.

The watches look cool and slightly retro and cost around £500. But they don't deal with the fact that looking at your watch in company can also seem a bit rude. Executives will be perfecting those surreptitious glances.

Another feature it would be good to see in the future would be the caller ID of the text message sender as opposed to just notification of the fact that a new message has arrived.