Bluetooth 3.0 +HS specification officially announced

Bluetooth should have been very irritating for most of us with it's slow transfer speeds for the past 9 years since its introduction. Have you ever wished why can't files be transferred at blazing speeds similar to USB? Well, after almost a decade, Bluetooth is finally getting the upgrade what we always hoped for. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) on it's All Hands Meeting held on Tokyo this week, announced the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 High Speed (HS), or Bluetooth 3.0. According to the press release, "The inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers at the approximate rate of 24 Mbps". Now that's a huge leap over the first generation and even the preceding 2.1 + EDR version. But don't get your hopes too high, according to the press release, "The Bluetooth SIG’s formal adoption of the specification is only the first step in the product lifecycle.........End products for consumers are expected to be in the market in 9 to 12 months" . Hit on the read link for the full press release.

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