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Re:Bluetooth 5 Now Available by jburgess777 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:31PM (#13127745)
The OBEX profiles predate even BT, they were inherited from IrDA. IrDA was an earlier method for transferring business cards or similar small files between hand held devices over an infra-red link link.
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Re:Bluetooth 5 Now Available by digi_owl on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:28AM (#13129888)
On that note, i think one of the big Japanese companies were working on a new high speed irda version.
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