After being unveiled in London last June, Bluetooth 5 was officially released on December 7, with a lot of features for IoT devices.
The Screening Room
Learn about the history of Bluetooth and the new features of the Bluetooth 5 spec in this video from The Linux Foundation uploaded on February 28.
Bluetooth 5 is “twice the speed, four times the range and 800% data increase.” Sounds good to me.
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>>>Bluetooth 5 is “twice the speed, four times the range and 800% data increase.” Sounds good to me.<<<
That should be a real boon to Criminal Hackers, as more and more Internet of Unsecured Things become more prevalent. Sounds good to me too.
It’s faster…yawn.
Have they improved security at all? No?
Well, I guess they have their priorities.
Yep, above two comments say a lot more about it.