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The ubiquitous Bluetooth short-range wireless standard gets an update in Bluetooth 2.1. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group officially announced the updated standard and touts its improved specifications.
Bluetooth SIG says that their Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) will soon be available for developers to play with.
The improved standard boasts:
-An improved pairing process that makes initial device pairing easier by reducing the number of steps required for pairing. A verification PIN is no longer needed, and Near Field Communication (NFC) technology allows pairing by simply bringing two devices in close proximity
-More efficient power consumption to increase uptime in bluetooth devices by up to 5 times. Now that’s a nice improvement!
Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR will be backwards compatible with older standard, so no need to worry about your phone having the older standard.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
