Samsung GT-S8500 is first with Bluetooth 3.0

And here we have it: what's likely to be the world's first Bluetooth 3.0 phone courtesy of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). According to the filing's description, the "compact and slim" Samsung GT-S8500 is a touchscreen slate phone with a "high resolution" 3.1-inch OLED sporting a TouchWIZ UI and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios. The advantages of the 3.0 Bluetooth spec approved in April are faster throughput (up to 24Mbps) and more frugal power usage -- both welcome advances in modern media-playing handsets. Although it's not stated we can assume an official launch in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress.

[yulebellow Posted Feb 2nd 2010 1:55AM]

Please let the days of hi fidelity bluetooth stereo headphones come soon!

[sammymoho Posted Feb 2nd 2010 2:11AM]

I guess we can assume iPhone will have this feature in 2012?

[manifest3r Posted Feb 2nd 2010 3:38AM]

@sammymoho that's too late for the iPhone, it needs to have it in 2015

oh wait...

[onlymyrailgun Posted Feb 2nd 2010 5:59AM]

@sammymoho
I am so holding you guys to your predictions, lol...

We better have it by then!!!

[3rdsun Posted Feb 2nd 2010 5:38AM]

Samsung should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for the number of 'firsts' they claim

[Eternity Posted Feb 2nd 2010 8:25AM]

@3rdsun
I think some idiots on Engadget can hold that title better.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Feb 2nd 2010 6:01AM]

@decalfx
You mean OS 4.0???

Btw, I just used the undo function on my iPhone for the first time... Very exciting

[GenericMessage Posted Feb 2nd 2010 6:14AM]

Now, I gotta ask the "brain trust" here;

What benefits do I expect to receive from going with 3.0?

I mean so far I can transfer files, stream music, and control a nifty little remote control car!

So what is next!?

[Dark Wizard Posted Feb 2nd 2010 7:01AM]

@GenericMessage Now you won't depend on 300KB/s transfer speeds, you'll be able to share your content in high speed 3MB/s, 10x faster than before. Also there are many other points of interst like power manegement that you can browse for in the wikipedia for exemple.

I'm looking forward for a phone with this capability, unfortunately, the phone to which I'm transfering the files also needs to have BT3.0, so I know this will take time.

[DoctarPeppar Posted Feb 2nd 2010 8:04AM]

That's great Samsung, how about making a dongle now so we can actually use 3.0 speeds!? I cannot find one anywhere.

[fel Posted Feb 2nd 2010 9:46AM]

OLEDs that are better in sunlight? Nice.

[zeec Posted Feb 2nd 2010 10:54AM]

finally samsung initiated it... i wish to see a dongle soon