New Bluetooth 2.2 to debut in mid-2009

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently announced that it will release a new version of Bluetooth in mid-2009. Bluetooth 2.2 promises to be much faster than previous versions, allowing transfer rates at higher speeds.

According to the SIG, the new High Speed Bluetooth specification will work in conjunction with WLAN or USB for improved data rates, and will be known as Bluetooth 10x and Bluetooth 100x, respectively. It hopefully will allow for wireless video streaming, wireless printing, and more. For this to work, your mobile phone will have to have WLAN or UWB radio. It's said that Bluetooth 10x will be used first, since a lot of handsets have Wi-Fi capabilities now.

Since we don't have any news of devices that will use this new Bluetooth specification, we can't tell if it delivers its promises. But once we have some compatible devices on hand, we'll try it out and let you know.

Update: Apparently the next version of Bluetooth will not be 2.2, but 3.0. The release date may now be later than mid-2009 -- more on Crave US here.

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