Edited by author 09-23-2004 02:07 PM
From the security improvement perspective...
The specification mentioned use of Unit keys will be depricated, and only combination keys will be used . Is this something that was left out as well?

is there any way to tell if vendors are now using combination keys.

Best places to look, I would suggest, are the obvious ones: the Bluetooth Sig, and Cambridge Silicon Radio.

I would like to have some good links which describe the major changes in the BT between different versions of release and also w.r.t the future BT versions changes !!!

kindly give some good links/pdfs .

Thanks & Regards,
karthik bala guru

I havent read the final 1.2 specs, but I sure hope support for SDO and so on got in. Because hifi audio support for bluetooth is darn needed next year, I think, for some areas.

Do use videoconferencing a lot, both with ichat AV, and ohphoneX, and an headset is far better than speaker + normal microphone, especially if you are using an laptop at different places. With an bluetooth headset, I would be able to make calls via my P800, and chat with other on my Powerbook G4 via the same bluetooth headset (when Apple support BT voice....). And in between, one could listen to some songs from iTunes, in the same headsets.

Sure needs better audio, than the "phone quality level" most (all?) Bluetooth 1.1 headset seems to use.

Nice articles btw - keep up the darn good writing Guy!

/Orjan Larsson (orjan@sm4tfe.com)

OK, to clarify! - the Bluetooth SIG has, after all, managed to approve the spec. I'm told that pressure from PC makers injected a sense of the urgency Robert Carnegie was looking for!

I think pzboyz (/m2) was right, by the way; AFH is part of the 1.2 spec, and would have been anyway. And my comment in reply was plain wrong; the features which are not ready will, after all, be left out.

Edited by author 11-06-2003 09:19 AM
I take it that a version 1.15 isn't an option - that the majority of the Bluetooth patent holders are voting for 1.2 or bust. (Well, "or 1.1".)

Having lived, like many others, to see the Compact Disc come and, apparently, go - and, of course, Betamax too - I'm disappointed that a promising technology, Bluetooth, has so little sense of urgency about conquering the world. Americans have already been declaring all year that they don't need Bluetooth if they can get everything with 802.11whatever, which to me resembles buying an SUV with bull bars to drive to work and buy groceries - oh, yeah, I get it now...

Yes, that's the point, isn't it? All those features that are not yet ready, will be in the spec, and that's why the spec is being delayed.

Sorry if this wasn't clear.

There is a paragraph in this report that suggest AFH is not in the 1.2 spec. It will be.

Edited by author 11-03-2003 01:19 PM
When Broadcom pre-announced a WiFi chipset that ran at 54 megabits, it just about tore the WiFi Alliance apart. But the delay to Bluetooth spec 1.2, say members, will not cause a similar dismemberment of the Bluetooth Secial Interest Group.

Do we believe this?