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title: "Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?"  
description: "Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?"  
author: "Sophia Morrow"  
published: 2018-01-23  
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# Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?

Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

![Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/34888201-46b4-461f-af4c-3c9fb4c26a0c/images/26cd7f67-fa04-47e6-93bd-acc8d1cb26a3.png)[**Bluetooth**](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11658/all-you-need-to-know-about-bluetooth-5) **was invented by Dr. Jaap Haartsen in the year 1990 while working at Ericsson.** Dr. Jaap Haartsen full name Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen **was born on 13 Feb 1963 in The Hague, the Netherlands is a Dutch electrical engineer, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur and his best known for inventing Bluetooth.**

**Bluetooth is a low energy device to device wireless connection technology which became a mainstream way of short distance connectivity globally.** In the year 2008 when the technology celebrated its 10th anniversary, the number of Bluetooth users reached up to 2 billion.

![Who is the inventor of Bluetooth?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/34888201-46b4-461f-af4c-3c9fb4c26a0c/images/f8dacfae-e036-4ca4-b719-a23ceae8ac9e.png)\
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The **stats are very genuine as now in the year 2018 Bluetooth is not just in a mobile phone as it’s now in a number of high-end devices** such as earplugs, speakers, portable speakers, car music system and many more things. \
**"Stay connected"**


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