of course, you're right. for 'wider' bandwidth use, bluetooth is basically a no-go. however i think it's much easier to bring to market something like "bluetooth 2" (with backwards compatibility) than 'something else'. i somehow find it strange how hard it was for bluetooth - and i think one can blame nokia for much of it. it hasn't widely adopted bluetooth (only in their business handys, and strange enough there isn't even a nokia communicator with bluetooth capability). of course, there _are_ standards coming up that are interesting for such uses: for example one that i think would rock for it: wireless usb. (there's also wireless firewire, both standards will get around 50-60 mbps, which is enough for 'small' use.) i thought usb- and firewire-wireless was a bad idea initially, because i thought 'harddisks', but for mobile media stuff, it'd be great. and when we have 3g 1.x mbps access with our mobile phones, we also want our notebooks to be able to make use of it.