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A comment on Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set Up’ Via iOS 7 Devices. Parent comment

Re:Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set ... by r00fus on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @07:21PM (#6447989)
The benefit of BT LE is that the pairing process is supposed to take at most 6ms. Thus the requirement for 4S or later iOS devices.

Pretty sweet. I wonder if this was supposed to be part of the new AppleTV reveal in Oct?

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Re:Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set ... by Timothee on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @08:15PM (#6448163)
is supposed to take at most 6ms. Thus the requirement for 4S or later iOS devices.

I don't follow the causation between the first and second sentences. Are iPhone 4 not fast enough or do they lack the proper BlueTooth technology?

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Re:Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set ... by randomdata on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @08:35PM (#6448216)
The latter. The iPhone 4S was the first model with BTLE hardware.
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