iPhone Opens Up Bluetooth For Data

WildNahviss writes "Apple has loosened its tight grip on the iPhone and allowed a third party to develop a health device that exchanges data with the iPhone and their hardware. Is this the start of a trend for Apple that will relax constraints on non-audio Bluetooth use, or is this an exception? Does anyone know of any other devices for the iPhone that allows non-audio Bluetooth transmission of data?" Reader climenole points out an article about another health-sensor system, dubbed a "body area network," that is built to work with Android devices, but not via Bluetooth.

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Re:This is the reason

[h4rr4r]

How much did you make for that comment?

WM7 will be stillborn, android already has any market share it would have had and RIM will keep the business market.

The Marketing Version Of Turrets

[RingBus]

It's like you have some bizarre version of Turrets Syndrome where instead of screaming obscenities you blurt out an endless stream of Microsoft marketing talking points.

Re:Every time the iphone gets "new features" ...

[hitmark]

And much of that was available on the Sony Ericsson T610 i got back in 2003/2004 (a featurephone). Bluetooth on US sold phones have been raped by carriers for ages, and is one reason why Nokia is a virtual no show in that market (they refused to let the carriers neuter phone features like voip and bluetooth).

And this is why i groan each time i read a US tech blog talking about mobile tech from a US == world perspective...