swagner53

There are only 2 phones with the latest bluetooth 4.0 capabilities in them, the iphone 4S and the Razr. This will allow them to connect to coming devices that use extremely low power bluetooth chips that last a long time- perfect for watches, heart monitors, etc.

I haven't really seen much about this, but I think in the next year it will be significant. That said, none of the recently announced devices have it except the Razr. Not in the Rezound, Nexus, etc. Is this a factor in deciding what device to get? Why isn't anyone really talking about it? Is bluetooth dead?

Your thoughts?

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jerofld

Bluetooth is hardly dead. It's just that more advanced versions of Bluetooth are mostly unused by a large portion of devices. Like my Evo 3D has Bluetooth 3.0. Not that it matters, because everything else I have that connects to it via Bluetooth is 2.0, or whatever was the latest before 3.0.

And it's not like I'm going to get a new car or replace my headphones in the near future just so I can get Bluetooth 3.0 or 4.0.

It's a lot like the newer versions of USB, or wifi conventions. Yeah, newer is nicer, but mostly useless until most of the stuff you use on a daily basis catches up. And that may not be for a few more years, especially when factoring in cars.

Last edited by jerofld; November 8th, 2011 at 03:45 PM.

A.Nonymous

This. There are no devices out there that utilize BT 4.0 or at the very least, very few devices. And of those devices that do utilize BT 4.0, how many of them won't work with BT 2.0 and work just fine?

adi19956

well Bluetooth 3.0 was released in April 2009. As far as I can tell, only now are a lot of devices starting to use it, but most are still on v2.1 which was 2007.
These things take a long long time to roll out, so I wouldn't say there's any rush to adopt them. Plus for file transfer, the Galaxy Nexus has WiFi Direct

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