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Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

stallard writes "Yahoo! news reports that "The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) Monday is releasing a three-year road map for Bluetooth short-range wireless technology that includes a tripling of bandwidth and the ability to multicast signals to seven other users.""

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  1. Do they have better batteries on their roadmap ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those peski radioes are power hungry ...

  2. "from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept." by Gentoo+Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the point of Bluetooth is that you don't see the wires. ;)

    1. Re:"from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept." by pronobozo · · Score: 1, Funny

      " I think the point of Bluetooth is that you don't see the wires. ;)" CmdrTaco has many talents.

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  3. BSIG by knifeyspooney · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the first to say I'm sick of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and all its porkbarrel politics?

  4. Re:Just SEVEN?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    i wondered just who were those lucky 7 people!

  5. In other news... by RealProgrammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Commodore SIG announced plans to make a future announcement of an impending design contest to map the creation of the Commodore 192, which would have triple the capacity of its Commodore 64.

    Commodore SIG said there were thousands of programs available for the C-64 that would run unchanged or with a simple recompile on the new machine. C-SIG predicted the machine would easily outperform designs from competitors Heath and Timex.

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  6. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that includes a tripling of bandwidth and the ability to multicast signals to seven

    So now I can hack seven phones or PDAs at once, and do it 3 times faster.

  7. Awesome! by sootman · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but I hope they rename the old version to sound faster than the new version so people who have 1st-gen BT gear don't feel sad. Just like DVDs--widescreen, fullscreen... wow, they both sound great!

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