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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by SV_BubbleTime on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:11AM (#29703644)
Once for this specific test. If you planned on buying a lot of tests and using them regularly, maybe you could find value in a BLE connection? IDK. That crosses into a different new normal line for me that I am uninterested in I think.

Otherwise, I agree, seems wasteful when you look at what had to happen to ship that product.

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by johannes1234321 on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:51AM (#29704086)
If you do mass testing the Bluetooth might be useful in theory, but you babe to make sure to protect the data well ...
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