Bluetooth gets faster

By Peter Rojas

Just in time for everyone to be all set to move on to something better and faster (like Ultra Wideband), the shadowy cabal known as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group says that a new Bluetooth spec called Enhanced Data Rate that's three times as fast as the regular Bluetooth we have now (i.e. 2.1 Mbps vs. 721 kbps) should be ready later this year.
Should be backwards compatible with older versions of Bluetooth, and the first gadgets with the spec (like hopefully a pair of decent Bluetooth stereo headphones) should be out next year.

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