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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by BillinghamJ on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:56AM (#11992179)
It's aimed at low power IoT devices. Wi-Fi is (relatively) very power hungry compared with Bluetooth LE.
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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by cbsmith on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:31PM (#11996247)
Power helps with signal quality and bandwidth maybe, but simplicity and interoperability are all but completely orthogonal concerns.
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