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A new implementation of bluetooth will allow easier pairing and far more profiles for use with additional devices.  Now I’m just waiting for the BT RFiD chip to be implanted in my head for the alien spy satellites to communicate with my subconscious

“The most significant challenge that Bluetooth has faced is making the technology more usable, especially when it comes to setting up connections,” says Stuart Carlaw, an analyst with New York-based ABI Research. “There is no doubt that there are more viable business models for the technology. They just need to be better supported at the most difficult point” in the user’s experience.

That should happen this fall, when the first Bluetooth upgrade in three years, Bluetooth 2.1, starts shipping.

Devices will be paired in as few as three clicks. Encrypted data transfer means no need for passwords. And lower power consumption means that Bluetooth 2.1 devices will have as much as five times the battery life of their predecessors.

Story: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050968/index.htm?postversion=2007061406

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