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Apple's FCC Application for Internal Bluetooth for Laptops... Cancelled?

November 2, 2002, MacRumors posted links to FCC documents on the testing of Apple Bluetooth Modules "to be used only in Apple manufactured computers including the Apple ibook and Apple Titanium."

Test photos and an Apple Bluetooth instruction manual were posted at the FCC site.

The same original link now points to a letter (written on November 4, 2002) from Apple Computer:


    Per the written confirmation from Apple Computer, Inc. , Apple Computer would like to request the Commission to dismiss this application. Apple is not going to market this product any more.

Bluetooth rumors have infiltrated pre-Expo rumors... and this cancellation of Apple's Bluetooth Module Application may simply be an outdated project, whose papers were simply brought to attention by the previous report. Or not...

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