Bluetooth 5 specs to be released June 16

Posted on by Jules Wang

Bluetooth 4.2, introduced in December of 2014, is about to be replaced. The wireless standard, which hasn’t seen much change at the center of its core specifications, will see its biggest update since July of 2010 with the launch of Bluetooth 5.No point versions. Just “5”.The Bluetooth Special Interest Group will release the details of Bluetooth 5 at a London press event on June 16. It has been said to have double ...

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The future of Bluetooth: what to expect and why you should care

Posted on by Joe Levi

Back in 1994, Ericsson (who would later merge with Sony) “invented” Bluetooth. Back then out devices were connected by one of a few technologies: RS-232 “COM Ports”, Parallel Ports, and SCSI. USB was still being worked on. Ericsson’s vision was to replace the serial RS-232 cables with a new, wireless standard. Bluetooth was born.Uhura knew about Jawbone before Jawbone knew about Jawbone.Bluetooth is a wireless communication standard using the 2.4GHz band (which ...

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