Bluetooth 3.0 ready to launch on April 21st

By on Apr 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM
News April 10, 2009

It’s not every day we get to talk about the launch of an exciting technology revision that will have a huge and near-immediate impact on the mobile industry, so we’re cherishing the opportunity. And this one is indeed a big one — Bluetooth 3.0. First revealed about a year and a half ago, Bluetooth 3.0 will make use of Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology to achieve transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps. No, seriously. Higher transfer speeds are actually achieved by enabling 802.11 standards when heavy lifting is involved and then switching back to an older, slower standard when big transfers are completed. Reasoning? To slow power consumption and side-step unnecessary battery drain when standard low-bandwidth communications are used. We’re hoping consumer-ready Bluetooth 3.0 devices won’t be far off from the launch, though it will take some time before gear such popular mobile phones take advantage of the technology. Oh and in case you’re wondering, yes, it is pretty ironic that the world will have already gotten a taste of Bluetooth 3.0 in all of its glory… Before Apple handsets support A2DP.

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  • backbeat

    Will A2DP -still- suck [audio-quality wise] with 3.0?

  • mangenius

    hmm so quicker bluetooth transfers and better battery consumption. Not a big deal but cool

  • Daniel Blois

    mangenius,

    What else would you expect from it? It is a wireless standard? there isn’t much that they can improve on!

  • Tyrone D.

    @mangenius – you’re a dumbass.

    Post – looking forward to it and I like the logo, too.

  • MichaelSF

    That is fantastic. I like that we are progressing on all fronts, including, for example, USB 3.0 that will be 10X as fast as USB 2.0.

    The only downer is that all my stuff will be outdated next year. So in 2010 it will be BT 3.0, USB 3.0, Blu-Ray drives at old 10X CD-RW prices, 16GB MicroSD chips for $20.

    Anyone wanna buy all my soon-to-be outdated stuff so I can wet my beak on the new technologies? :)

  • MichaelSF

    Enabling faster data transfers while lowering power consumption will be especially nice on my smartphones.

    My current phone, the G1, with BT on uses battery power like a coke addict doing 10 lines in one snort, so to speak.

    So anything that can decrease battery drain is GREAT.

    And to increase transfer speeds at the same time, that’s amazing, IMHO.

    I’d like to see companies do this with GPS too. That G1 feature is also a big drain on my life.

  • mangenius

    Wow sych an angry group… I did finish by saying its cool. I guess you get hard for shit like this

  • Roger A

    MichaelSF clearly you never seen ME snort lines of coke… JK!!

    I use a stereo bt headset for music, and anything to give faster throughput and save on the battery is a win win in my book. Sometimes my BT lags and will speed up the music randomly to compensate..weird.

  • Crunch

    Where do you guys see an application of this for BT 3.0???

    When it rains, it pours. We just got another 3.0, the Beta 2 software for that iPhone, and OS 5.0 for the BlackBerry. Both are good builds.

  • hi

    Why is everyone excited?

    BT 2.1 was out ages ago and OEMs are still sellinng phones with security, pairing, and efficiently inferior 2.0.

    You can rave all you want, but if it isn’t cheap to implement… OEMs won’t give you a chance to purchase a product with this high tech.

  • PacoBell

    “First revealed about a year and a half ago, Bluetooth 3.0 will make use of Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology to achieve transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps.”

    Whiskey…Tango…Foxtrot. Umm, no it won’t. Did you even bother to read the article?

    “With the collapse of UWB as a near-term generic option for personal area networking (PAN)–it may wind up being important, but it’s not right now–802.11 standards will likely morph into WLAN/PAN systems.”

    UWB was dead even back in April when this story was posted, so why did you write this? It’s totally misleading.

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