Enhanced performance of Bluetooth 3.0 officially adopted

by Stevie Smith - Apr 22 2009, 16:10

While most regular tech consumers won’t give two hoots about the specifications of Bluetooth 3.0 – or perhaps even know what Bluetooth even is – those specifications have now been officially rubberstamped and adopted during a meeting of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).

Specifically, Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed (HS), which has been built alongside the 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol, is expected to improve existing transfer speeds from 3Mbps to a whopping 23Mbps while also delivering built-in power control factors that aren’t available through the existing standard.

“Utilising the 802.11 radio was a natural choice as it provides efficiencies for both our members and consumers,” outlined SIG director Michael Foley in a statement, adding that manufacturers stand to get “more function out of the two radios they are already including in devices,” while consumers equipped with Bluetooth 3.0 HS products will receive “faster exchange of information without changing how they connect.”

The emergence of Bluetooth 3.0 and the significantly enhanced performance it brings with it, should see it extend its current reach through mobile phones, computer mice and other peripherals to include consumer electronic devices such as digital video and still cameras, high-definition Blu-ray players and even televisions.

In terms of the tangible advantages consumers can expect to experience through the widespread arrival of Blueooth 3.0, SIG has said music file collections, DVDs and photographs will take only a few seconds to pass through the transfer process.

The first trickle of electronic devices supporting Bluetooth 3.0 + HS are expected to hit the market in the early part of 2010.

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