With the ever-growing popularity of wireless headphones, speakers, systems and wearable devices, Bluetooth is more common than ever – if you don't believe us, just ask the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), who estimate a whopping 7 billion Bluetooth devices will ship worldwide during 2026, which is nearly 2 billion more than in 2022. Staggering.
Bluetooth has been around for nearly 25 years now (yes, we feel old too) and its introduction was originally meant to pave the way for the removal of those large, nine-pronged RS-232 serial ports on devices.
