Bluetooth group aims for '5-minute ready'

March 30, 2003, 6:07 PM — Bluetooth has hit numerous snags on the way to wide adoption; one of the worst is the fact that in practice it's extremely tricky to get Bluetooth-enabled devices to recognize one another. An initiative from the Bluetooth Special Interest group is urging manufacturers to try to get those connect times down to five minutes. But will anyone but the most hard-core techies even want to spend that much time fiddling with a handheld gadget?

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