Bluetooth 3.0 Use to Grow Exponentially by 2011
Bluetooth 3.0 Use to Grow Exponentially by 2011
Posted 10/13/2009 at 5:18pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Don’t get all cozy with your Bluetooth 2.1 products just yet. There is another standard on the horizon that aims to take over your wireless life. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is touting a report that indicates 23 percent of Bluetooth equipped devices will run the new 3.0+HS standard by late 2010. This is expected to rise to 61 percent by 2011.
Bluetooth 3.0 was adopted on April 21 of this year. The new standard includes support for Alternative MAC/PHY (AMP) transport. AMP allows Bluetooth devices to use the 802.11 protocol for large data transfers. Additional power management technologies are expected to increase reliability as well. Circulation will start with external USB dongles for desktop and notebook PCs very soon.
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JohnP
October 13, 2009 at 9:10pm
Bluetooth and computers? Not very likely. USB owns the roost and deservedly so.
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