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Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing by FireBeyond on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:02PM (#15349816)
> Bluetooth LE devices can have upto a year of battery life !

Bluetooth LE is highly unsuitable, if not impossible, to use with high bandwidth applications (like dumping a 40MB+ file to a remote destination potentially dozens of times a minute or more).

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Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing by ksk on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:14PM (#15351281)
It is eminently suitable as a signal for remote shutter release, which was the context of my comment.
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Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing by FireBeyond on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:01PM (#15385605)
Ahh, in that context, which re-reading, I see... definitely.
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