the Future of Bluetooth
Almost all cellphones these days come standard with Bluetooth. Well, what exactly is Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a wireless protocol maintained by a group of companies known as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. It was designed to bring together various devices using radio waves on the 2.4 to 2.4585GHz bands. Not all Bluetooth devices are created equal so some support more features like file sharing and wireless stereo audio.
However, most devices these days do support almost all profiles so they almost all have all of the capabilities of the technology. What’s exciting for Bluetooth is the increase in data transfer speeds and decrease in power consumption that will come in the future.
The upcoming Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed (+ HS) standard is capable of delivering speeds of up to 24 Mbps which is lightning fast for Bluetooth connections. There is also the upcoming Bluetooth low energy technology that uses very little power that it can allow some devices to last for more than a year on a single battery. Expect to see Bluetooth 3.0 + HS in phones and computers in the next 9 to 12 months, and Bluetooth low energy in monitors and sensors sometime in the near future.