Interest Group (SIG) is planning to release an updated Bluetooth in
mid 2009 with a promise to deliver transfer rates at higher speeds
than previous versions.
The idea of the new High Speed Bluetooth specification is to work with
WLAN or USB for improved data rates, and will be known as Bluetooth
10x and Bluetooth 100x, respectively.
For this to work, a mobile phone will need to be equipped with WLAN or
UWB radio. Hence Bluetooth 10x will be used first, since many of the
newer handsets already have WiFi capabilities built-in.
According to the SIG, Bluetooth 2.2 will enable wireless video
streaming, printing and other Wi-Fi related tasks. It will also meant
that faster speeds than that under v1.1 can be achieved.
Since we don't have any news of devices that will use this new
Bluetooth specification, we can't tell if it delivers its promises.
But once we have some compatible devices on hand, we'll try it out and
let you know.
We will be able to know more about Bluetooth 2.2 in mid 2009 when its
get launched by Bluetooth Special Interest Group. It is expected that
Bluetooth 10x devices will be released first followed by Bluetooth
100x, which if used along with Ultra Wide Broadband radio, may be able
to give 480mbps of data transfer speed.
For this to work, a mobile phone will need to be equipped with WLAN or
UWB radio. Hence Bluetooth 10x will be used first, since many of the
newer handsets already have WiFi capabilities built-in.The way I see
it, smartphones should stand first in the line for any upgrades,
although some of the modern WiFi-enabled feature phones could also see
such an update.
Bluetooth 10x is expected to give better performance in Wi-Fi devices
and this will be pretty useful especially in portable media players.
The new iPod Touch 2G has a Bluetooth chip embedded in it but it has
not yet been activated. Once the final specifications are released, we
can expect Apple to release the update to enable Bluetooth 2.2
services.
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