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The Bluetooth 3.0 specification could be made official on April 21, according to a story<\/a> at Phone Scoop. <\/p>\n The Special Interest Group<\/a> (SIG) responsible for Bluetooth has been working on the next generation peer-to-peer wireless technology for some time, and if the announcement date is correct, it\u2019s possible we could begin seeing Bluetooth 3.0 hardware showing up in devices by the end of the year.<\/p>\n While we have nothing official to go on at this point, Bluetooth 3.0 is supposed to include new power saving protocols and a technology designed to decrease the number of dropped connections between devices. Of course, the main attraction of Bluetooth 3 is its increased transfer speeds:<\/p>\n \u201cBluetooth 3.0 uses Generic Alternate MAC\/PHY (AMP) [which] lets Bluetooth profiles operate at Wi-Fi speeds. The 802.11 Protocol Adaption Layer (PAL) will enable the Generic AMP feature to be used with an 802.11 radio. Bluetooth is used to create the pairing between two devices, but the data transfer itself is handed off to Wi-Fi. In order to take advantage of the higher transfer speeds, both devices need Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If Wi-Fi isn’t present on one of the devices, the spec reverts to Bluetooth for data transfer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n via EngadgetMobile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nThe Bluetooth 3.0 specification could be made official on April 21, according to a story at Phone Scoop. \n
\nThe Special Interest Group (SIG) responsible for Bluetooth has been working on the next generation peer-to-peer wireless technology for some time, and if the announcement date is correct, it\u2019s possible we could begin seeing Bluetooth 3.0 […] Continue reading