Re:iPhone 7
by mark-r on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:03PM
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If you look at how old Bluetooth is, it wouldn't be surprising if a new system could be much more efficient. Uncompressed audio isn't high bandwidth by today's standards.
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Bluetooth v4.2 is not yet 2 years old. Bluetooth v5 is coming out in the next couple of years.
Bluetooth 4.0 really dropped power requirements for a lot of use cases. It's an adapting standard that's not sitting still by any stretch.
Re:iPhone 7
by arcticbull on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:24AM
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Bluetooth 4.0 is completely unrelated to Bluetooth 3 but for the name. It was a separate standard developed by Nokia and brought wholesale to the Bluetooth SIG and they effectively told them that's what 4.0 would be ^_^