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Bluetooth Gets Faster & Requires Less Power
An anonymous reader writes "The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BSIG) has announced a new specification named "Enhanced Data Rate" or EDR for short. EDR aims to provide faster data transmission and reduce the power consumption from traditional Bluetooth technology. The data speeds will be roughly three times faster which means you could easily use multiple Bluetooth devices simultaneously. The reduced power consumption also means longer battery life and less heat generated. The new EDR standard will be backward compatible with the current standard Bluetooth devices. This makes upgrading to the new standard effortless."
With Bluetooth I'm able to also connect to the internet on trips but I'm also now sending wallpapers, ringtones etc to my phone. :P
Another favourite feature is the Address Book sync. Its such a paint to enter full Address Book entries on the phone so instead I enter on the comp. and sync it with my phone. Bluetooth ain't so bad
You can't compare the two. Bluetooth uses a much lower power consumption and is meant for very low-range transfers (1 milliwatt and 30 ft, respectively) where Wi-Fi uses 100 milliwatts and goes up to 300 feet.
They're used for different things; local/personal -area transfers vs. high-speed internet connections.
A friend of mine mentioned to me the other day that some phone companies (like sprint) are being very cautious about offering bluetooth support in their phones because bluetooth makes it so easy to share the internet connection on the phones. A lot of the phone companies (like sprint) are offering unlimited internet plans, and bluetooth phones would lead to a lot of abuse with people using the connections for their laptops instead of their cellphones. Anyway, it is one of the reasons that bluetooth adoption isn't taking off as fast as it should.
something like this?
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
How is this modded insightful? It should be rated ignorant or uninformed if there was one.
You wouldn't "see" any bluetooth devices on your computer because it's not meant to broadcast to everyone far away. You want everyone walking by with a laptop or bluetooth pda to pickup and connect to your cell phone or laptop?
Bluetooth is not supposed to compete with Wifi and won't. WiFi is for IP networks, Bluetooth is just a wireless connection for peripherals.
It would be like comparing Wireless USB to Wi-Fi, they have different uses. Just because they are both wireless doesn't mean they should compete. It's like saying my remote control for my tv is slower than my wireless network so it's going to die off soon.
After reading that article when it was published, I tried searching for BT devices within range while in a populated area and found nothing. I was disappointed, logically. :P
"Not having a mac I don't have any links to hand, but you can already get an app for Symbian phones (don't know if it's for series60 or UIQ or both) to do various bits of Mac remote control by bluetooth. I'd *conjecture* (given the leetness of applescript) one should be able to control airtunes (as it's just new stuff in iTunes) using that sort of arrangement."
There's a program for OS X that allows your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone to operate various things like change tracks in iTunes. Leo showed it on "Call for Help" about a month before the show was cancelled to make way for the merger between Comcast's G4 channel and TechTV. I doubt show notes that much in the past on the new g4techtv.com website yet, but you can probably find it on Leo's own site. I think its leoville.com or something.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
Yep, people have been controlling iTunes(along with every other app) with their bluetooth phones/PDAs. It's one of the "Big" applications for bluetooth.
There's so much "crap" out there about "bluetooth is dead, long live 802.11", or "everything will be 802.11" or "elvis works at my local 711".
They are complimentary, remember that Bluetooth was designed _specifically_ as (a) single chip solution, (b) low power, low cost, low size, (c) a short range point to point data replacement.
Until I see true single-chip 802.11 devices that meet these criteria, there's still a space for Bluetooth.
After all, you don't buy "dishwasher power" for your "washing machine".
It really shouldn't be that well known, because it's not true.
Source: Nintendo. Emphasis: mine.
Perhaps you are talking about Salling Cliker?