What Is a Bluetooth® Dongle?
A Bluetooth® dongle is a small computer peripheral or computer accessory that allows a computer to link wirelessly to other devices. Such dongles can link a computer with another computer, cellular phone, printer, or digital camera that also sport such dongles or have Bluetooth® chips installed. Every Bluetooth® dongle houses a small Bluetooth® microchip that enables it to connect and exchange data with other dongles and other devices also containing such microchips. Bluetooth® dongles attach to one of the universal serial bus (USB) ports of a computer. Just like other computer peripherals that connect to computers via USB, these dongles are powered by the computer itself, and are deactivated once disconnected.
