Bluetooth 3.0 Coming Soon To A Phone Near You

By Albert

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) plans to announce the Bluetooth 3.0 specification on the 21st of April. The new spec provides for vastly increased speeds (think Wi-Fi speeds) capable of transferring large multimedia files. It accomplishes this using Generic Alternate MAC/PHY (AMP) technology via Wi-Fi and it goes something like, “Hey, Mr. 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol, it’s me, the AMP chick, how about we hook up and hop onto your data stream…

Bluetooth 3.0 technology also provides for a more robust connection by utilizing Enhanced Power Control (EPC) technology. This aims to reduce the frequency of ‘disconnects’ while the phone is being put into a pocket, purse, etc.

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Blair Poloskey
May 4th, 2009

Albert, you reference wi-fi several times in the above post and I wanted to point out that Bluetooth 3.0 will actually be using 802.11, not wi-fi (I work with the SIG). Mike Foley, SIG executive director, has a very in-depth blog post up that might clear things up a bit. You can check it out here: http://bit.ly/P6MIj.


Albert
May 5th, 2009

Thanks for the clarification, Blair.

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