checking out phones on attws.com and there's a section for bluetooth. what would that get me?

 

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology used to create PANs (Personal Area Networks) among your devices, and with other nearby devices.

Bluetooth allows you to leave your phone in your pocket, while talking on your phone with a Bluetooth headset - with no wires. You can also excahnge contact or scheduling information with other Bluetooth-enabled phones nearby, or send such information to a nearby Bluetooth-enabled printer.

Another common use is to give your laptop computer or PDA wireless high-speed Internet access via Bluetooth and your phone.

Many newer automobiles also have Bluetooth, which can interface with a phone in a pocket, to allow automatic hands-free phone capability.

More innovative uses include playing a game against someone with a similar phone nearby, or using a special Bluetooth pen to send SMS messages by simply writing them on paper.

Bluetooth is named for the 10th century Viking, King Herald Bluetooth.

www.phonescoop.com

 

so it's not 802.11... ?

 

no, its more like

a service designed to have printers able to connect to computers wirelessly, but can be scaled so that it can be for phones to hook up to a car for speakerphone

 

Think of Bluetooth as a wireless replacement for the cable--when you hook up your phone to a print or a computer or your car install using the cable. Take away the cable and wireless up to 30 feet, that's BT.