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Title: Bluetooth Demystified by Nathan J. Muller ISBN: 0-07-136323-8 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 08 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Should Be Called "Bluetooth Mystified"
Comment: This book has absolutley no practical value. I purchased it in order to answer some very simple questions about the technology, none of which were answered. Instead, the book strays off into a thorough description of WAP and other tangentially related topics.
All I want to know is the following: Do current Bluetooth enabled devices use the devices TCP/IP stack, or does Bluetooth depend on some other non-standard protocol? Answers anyone?
Rating: 1
Summary: No blue tooth to demystify
Comment: The book covers extraneous information that is not "relevant" to the Bluetooth standard. For example, it has a one-pager on Jini and the last line was "At this writing, Jini's future is in doubt". As a Java developer, I may not necessariy agree, but the book also fail to mention Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) if the author really wants to be impartial and covers the whole gamut of lookup and discovery technologies.
There were also mispelled commercial products (page 7) of Cisco's Aeronet (should be Aironet), but the accompanying digital photos clearly showed Aironet. This is one of the examples where both the author and McGraw-Hill's book editor failed their proofreading and/or research tasks.
The Bluetooth protocol descriptions came pretty much straight out of the Bluetooth specifications, without any comments or analyses. This indicates that that author, in this reviewer's opinion, has limited understanding on how or why the Bluetooth teams arrived at certain technical decisions. The last chapter on Global Scheme of 3G Wireless has little to do with Bluetooth.
I'm rather disappointed with the book in general since it contains information that can be downloaded directly from the Bluetooth Web site (for free). Rather than trying to rush out the "first" Bluetooth book, both the author and publisher should focus on delivering quality content rather than another door stop. Save your $US49.95 for another book.
Normally, this reviewer does not write such a strong opinion unless the book is extremely bad or good. Unfortunately, I am mystified on why this book was published at all.
Rating: 4
Summary: table 1.4
Comment: table 1.4 page 23: Performance Characteristics of Bluetooth Products
item: Range Up to 30 feet(???3 meters???) -> 9,144... meters
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Title: Bluetooth Revealed : The Insider's Guide to an Open Specification for Global Wireless Communications by Brent A. Miller, Chatschik Bisdikian ISBN: 0130902942 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Bluetooth: Operation and Use by Robert Morrow ISBN: 007138779X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Discovering Bluetooth by Michael Miller, Michael Miller ISBN: 0782129722 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables by Jennifer Bray, Charles F. Sturman ISBN: 0130898406 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $48.99 |
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Title: Bluetooth End to End by Dee Bakker, Diane McMichael Gilster, Ron Gilster ISBN: 0764548875 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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