Bluetooth 3.0+HS Specs Released

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group have officially release the specifications for the next iteration of Bluetooth, and what we can expect from it.

As we previously reported, the specs for Bluetooh 3.0 (now called Bluetooth 3.0+HS) were due to be released on April 21st, and sure enough, this came to be true.  The new high speed protoocls for Bluetooh will utilize the 802.11 spectrum (the same spectrum used for Wi-Fi) to allow for higher speed transfers of larger files.  Some of the examples they gave were streaming movies directly from a camcorder to an HDTV, wirelessly trasnfering photos from a camera to a computer and syncing music to an MP3 player over the air.

While all of this sounds very exciting, no information was given on pricing will be like for these new items.  The good news is that old Bluetooth equipment will still work with the new items thinks to backwards compatibility.  Considering the speed with which technology changes these days, this is a feature that is going to become more and more essential for everything.

Items with the new standard are expected to appear on store shelves within 9 - 12 months, meaning we will not be seeing this in phones until sometimes in 2010.

Article originally published by StarterTech.com

Bluetooth 3.0+HS Specs Released