Showing posts with label bluetooth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bluetooth. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Bluetooth 4.0 on iPhone 4S

I wonder why Apple did not emphasize more on the Bluetooth 4.0 used in the iPhone 4S.
It's the first smartphone to implement that!


If the specs are to be believed, Bluetooth 4.0 not only better its earlier version in terms of range (50m vs 20m), the most significant feature is the extremely short "setup time" like pairing and searching.
Bluetooth 4.0 has a setup time approximately 3ms vs Bluetooth 2.0's 6 seconds.

Now, this fast setup time is even faster than NFC's (Near Field Communication) 0.1s!

This may open a lot of nice features using Bluetooth.
Can't wait to see them!

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Internet Killed My FM Radio

There is a saying that "Internet Killed The Television". Can't say it's true for me. However abundant amount of videos on the internet, there's still no replacement for my favourite local TV shows on the television. No, it's not killing my 42" LCD TV just yet.

I can't say the same for my FM radio though. The situation becomes more apparent with the introduction of connected devices like the iPhone, iPad and Android Phones which offer applications that provide radio programs over the Internet.

However, it still does not yet offer a complete user experience to radio listening if you are talking about listening to the radio programme through the mobile devices' small speakers. You will need a good speaker system for the sound output. But, optimal user experience is still not reached if you have to connect your device to the speakers via cables. So here, we shall employ the help of bluetooth AD2P feature for that wireless experience:



The WiFi Router can even be removed if your devices is on 3G network like the iPhone. The above setup is totally wireless in terms of connection to the mobile device. With this setup, the control is now in your hands and can be moved conveniently around the house within the bluetooth maximum connectivity distance, which basically covers the whole of my house.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

iPad Bluetooth Keyboard Case




So, I've been using the bluetooth keyboard case for iPad for around 2 weeks.

Initially I would think the keyboard that uses bluetooth to connect to my iPad would prevent the use of a bluetooth earphones simultaneously.

I tried hooking up my Sony Ericsson bluetooth earphones to the iPad and turn on the keyboard at the same time... both worked! No lag as well!

Overall, the keyboard is very useful except for one bad point, in that there's no "Shift" button on the right side. There's only one on the left!

Being a certified typist myself, I find this very inconvenient to capitalise the left hand side keys!