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Information Technology News Nokia low power Wibree may make Bluetooth obsolete
Information Technology News Nokia low power Wibree may make Bluetooth obsolete | Nokia low power Wibree may make Bluetooth obsolete |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 04 October 2006 | |
      
With Nokia's new Wibree technology, devices can be linked up to 10 meters apart using about one tenth the power of Bluetooth. The much lower power requirements of Wibree will enable it to be used in much smaller and energy efficent devices, such as wrist watches, as well as current Bluetooth applications, such as wireless keyboards and mice. While Wibree can operate in conjunction with existing Bluetooth networks, it uses a different frequency band - 2.4 gigahertz as opposed to 6 gigaherz - and its order of magnitude lower power requirements are already raising questions as to whether it will make Bluetooth obsolete.{moscomment} |
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