Bluetest´s Japanese distributor TOYO Corporation showcased the Bluetest HP chamber at the Microwave Show MWE 2008 in Yokohama November 26 - 28, 2008. As a result several articles were published. Two of the leading industrial newspapers in Japan, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Dec 16) and The Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (Dec 12) published articles with a photo and description of some of the features and advantages of the Bluetest HP chambers.

“North America is a very important market for Bluetest. Many of the world's leading wireless companies have their headquarters and/or development centers in North-America. Bluetest is very happy to add MI Technologies, well known worldwide for its high quality and cost effective test and measurement products, to its list of distributors" says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.

During the ISAP 2008 conference, Bluetest's Taiwanese distributor QuieTek created a lot of interest by showing very fast live TRP and TIS tests in the Bluetest High Performance reverberation chamber. Many of the visitors to the exhibition expressed their appreciation of seeing TRP of mobile phones measured in only one minute per channel.

Professor Per-Simon Kildal will give a half day course on measurements in reverberation chambers at ISAP 2008 in Taipei, Tuesday 28 October. The title of the course is “Testing Wireless Devices in Reverberation Chamber”. The course material is based on several years published and unpublished material related to measurements in the small Bluetest reverberation chambers as well as larger reverberation chambers.

Bluetest sales are accelerating despite the economic turmoil on the world markets. Today Bluetest recieved its seventh order in the new fiscal year, which started May 1st 2008. This means that already now, less than six months into the fiscal year, a new sales record is set.

The unique and patented Bluetest technology is rapidly taking market shares worldwide. When the chamber from this order has been installed it will be the 30th Bluetest installation.

Bluetest will give a full day seminar at the National University of Singapore, Wednesday 22 October, on how to use reverberation chambers for very fast measurements of wireless devices with small antennas. Speaker is Bluetest's CEO Mats Andersson.

During the last month Bluetest has recieved four new High Performance (HP) chamber orders. Three of the orders are from customers in Asia and one from a customer in Europe. All of the orders include software for very fast measurements of diversity gain and and MIMO capacity.

Bluetest is happy to announce its third order from Japan for High Performance (HP) reverberation chamber no. 13 and its fourth HP chamber order in Europe, i.e. for HP chamber no 14. These chambers will be Bluetest chambers no. 27 and 28 to be installed worldwide. During 2008 the interest from wireless companies all over the world in Bluetest´s unique technology has increased significantly. The main reasons are the 1) very fast and accurate measurements, 2) ease of use and 3) small size and cost of the chambers.

After many rumors on the internet about a possible problem with iPhone 3G´s antenna affecting its ability to connect to the 3G network, the Swedish paper Göteborgsposten asked if Bluetest could make some tests to verify or disprove this rumor for an iPhone belonging to a journalist at Göteborgsposten. The results of the tests of the iPhone 3G, as well as those of a Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson P1 can be found here.

Bluetest is happy to announce its second order from Japan for High Performance reverberation chamber no. 12. This will be the 26th Bluetest chamber to be installed worldwide.

Bluetest has among its customers 5 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, 2 of the world´s largest operators, many developers of small antennas, 5 universities, 2 test institutes, and some other wireless companies. The customers can be found in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Sweden, Spain, France, UK, USA, Canada and Brazil.

Business Region Göteborg’s newsletter gives an overview of Bluetest’s revolutionary technology which allows companies working with wireless devices using small antennas to reduce their test time from several days using traditonal technology to hours using the Bluetest chambers. It also describes how Bluetest plan to increase its sales from about 1 chamber per month today to about 3 chambers per month one year from now. Keys to this expansion are CTIA approval of measurements in reverberation chambers, active marketing at wireless and antenna conferences worldwide and participation in the Swedish research program Chase. The complete newsletter (in Swedish) can be found here.

Professor Per-Simon Kildal and Bluetest will give a half day course at IEEE AP-S 2008 in San Diego, 6 of July 2008. The title of the course is "Testing Wireless Devices in Reverb Chamber". The course material is based on several years published and unpublished material related to measurements in the small Bluetest reverberation chambers as well as larger reverberation chambers.

Bluetest´s distributor for the ASEAN countries, ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems), will demonstrate the capabilities of Bluetest´s reverberation chambers in the Swedish Pavilion (booth #3H2-03) at CommunicAsia 2008 in Singapore, June 17-20.

Learn more about making direct measurements of diversity gain and MIMO capacity in only one minute using the Bluetest High Performance (HP) reverberation chamber. Antenna efficiency and TRP per channel can also be measured in only one minute. TIS measurements take about 10 minutes/channel for GSM and WCDMA.

Bluetest is releasing new software for Bluetooth TRP and TIS measurements. In the same measurement sequence, it is possible to obtain both the TRP and TIS value of a Bluetooth device in less than 3 minutes/channel.

At the 2008 International Workshop on Antenna Technology iWAT in Chiba, Japan, Bluetest´s CEO Mats Andersson presented the invited paper "Three Fast Ways of Measuring Receiver Sensitivity in a Reverberation Chamber" by Mats Andersson, Charlie Orlenius, and Per-Simon Kildal.

Bluetest is happy to announce an order for High Performance chamber no. 10. It is also the first order to Taiwan. Bluetest has previously delivered reverberation chambers to several Asian countries which have companies focused on wireless devices with small antennas, among them Korea, Japan, China, and now also Taiwan.

In their latest issue, Microwave Engineering Europe (MWEE) publishes an article highlighting the benefits of the reverberation chamber. The article is authored by Bluetest CEO Mats Andersson and gives a thorough background to measurements of devices with integrated small antennas.

See a web version of the January/February issue of MWEE here, the reverberation chamber article is found on page 24.

With the delivery of HP chamber no. 8 in December 2007 Bluetest has delivered TRP and TIS software for GPRS/EDGE and HSPA. The TRP measurements take one minute/channel with an accuracy of better than 0.5 dB standard deviation, and TIS measurements take about 10 minutes/channel.

Software for measuring GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 with the same speed in the HP chamber is available since earlier. Software for Bluetooth measurements is planned to be ready in March 2008.

Bluetest is happy to announce its first order to Japan for High Performance reverberation chamber no. 9. In connection with the delivery of the chamber in early March 2008, Bluetest´s Japanese distributor Toyo Corporation will arrange a seminar to introduce the Bluetest products to wireless companies in Japan.

Taiwan has many of the world leading companies developing and manufacturing wireless devices with small antennas. “Bluetest is very happy to add QuieTek, which is a well known Taiwanese EMC and wireless certification lab with a large customer base in Taiwan and China, to its list of Asian distributors” says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.

The Swedish paper Elektronik i Norden publish an overview article of why reverberation chambers are to be preferred for measurements of mobile phone antennas, as well as for all wireless devices with small antennas. The article in Swedish is available in Elektronik i Norden no. 17 at page 29. A translation into English can be found here.