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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by elementalest on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @01:23AM (#11991638)
What something like a heart monitor would need above anything else is reliability.
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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by diamondlovesyou on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:43AM (#11991916)
A monitor is not a life critical device, unless another critical device depends on the monitor's telemetry. Bluetooth is perfectly adequate in this case.
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