News - Bluetooth "replacement" is 1,000 times faster

[HEXUS]

Low power VIRTUS chipset can transfer an 8Gb DVD in 30 seconds.

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[GoodApollo]

Good, Bluetooth is far too slow in this day and age.

[cameronlite]

I can't remember the last time I used bluetooth - it was always just to fiddly.

Oh and the Hexus team might want to remove the last line in the article.

[KeyboardDemon]

I found that the time it would take to get two devices paired and then happily talking together before you could start transferring say a jpg from one to the other was far greater than the time it took to email the file, so that's what I tend to do. I can't even remember the last time I activated my Bluetooth.

[Roobubba]

I use bluetooth in the car for hands-free and occasionally music streaming to the car stereo, but it's just hopeless for transferring files. This definitely comes as welcome news!

[edvinasm]

Now we're talinkg. Yeah! Bluetooth was never good for other than streaming low bitrate data. File transfers were just unrealistic.

[mtyson]

cameronlite, thanks for the alert!

[Hicks12]

bluetooth works fine on my end , music streaming from my phone to my A/V receiver works without faults. However i agreee that anything more is terrible i.e file transfer, be nice to have something super fast .

[BerZerk]

It will be nice, for wireless storage back up... This will kick Apple time machine back off...

[rinoz]

About time there was a replacement, Bluetooth is getting long in the tooth. I only use Bluetooth in my car. If I have to do any wireless transferring then if possible I use WiFi. What with the advances in WiFi (802.11ac available sometime in 2012) it's nice to see this.

[Boris]

As long as it's not as fiddly to setup as Bluetooth I'd be very happy to use it. Bluetooth's best days are definitely behind it.

[semo]

Good, Bluetooth is far too slow in this day and age.

Not to mention that Sony receives license fees for every BT enabled device out there. I hope this new tech succeeds where zigbee failed but I doubt that will happen any time soon

[ser1]

This speed is quite useless ,which phone has 2Gb/s read and write speeds ?
Not even the desktop computers with fastest HD's (SSD's excluded for obvious reasons) can match it , let alone the feeble phone or tablet.
And this is not going to change anytime soon ...

[zaph0d]

This speed is quite useless ,which phone has 2Gb/s read and write speeds ?
Not even the desktop computers with fastest HD's (SSD's excluded for obvious reasons) can match it , let alone the feeble phone or tablet.
And this is not going to change anytime soon ...

But then again - you could use that speed to send say video & audio data from one device to another, Cheap Wireless HDMI anyone?