Wi-Fi Direct Coming, Could Wipe Out Bluetooth

[Marcus Yam]

Why didn't they firm this up sooner?

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[ubernoobie]

Cool... Pirating without torrenting ;D

 

[burnley14]

This would be awesome. Bluetooth is really convenient and all, but Wi-Fi is that much more so.

 

[Jazzmain]

mmmm, good point.

 

[scook9]

this would be nice and sounds exactly like what intel is already planning with their upcoming wi-fi stuff for the calpella platform

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Jesus, think POSITIVE people! Not DEMONIC! Wait, most of you are Atheist's, who am I kidding. That means be criminals! Right?

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Jesus, think POSITIVE people! Not DEMONIC! Wait, most of you are Atheist's, who am I kidding. That means be criminals! Right?[/citation]

... What the?

Meh. I don't use Bluetooth anyway, haven't found a use for it yet.

 

[sanchz]

It's good to see technologies unified, Wi-Fi Direct, Open Physics in new-gen graphics, Intel Light-Peak.
Bluetooth is useful, but one technology for all purposes is good.

 

[anonymousdude]

Only thing I'm worrying about is interference.

 

[schmich]

Topic is >here< you --------------------> X
If you are lost on the Internets please head to google.com to orientate yourself again. Have a nice day.

 

[schmich]

Um that was for mlopinto2k1 by the way. I thought the comment would go below his.

 

[mrhappy50]

hopefully it wont take 6 or 7 years to make it the official version.

 

[deltatux]

It should kill off Bluetooth (even though I like Bluetooth as is except for high royalty causing devices to be expensive) because creating Wi-Fi devices should be cheaper.

Also, hopefully it'll use the 5 GHz spectrum as the 2.4 GHz spectrum is way too crowded.

 

[astromud]

My first thought is how will this affect battery life in portable devices? My experience has been that batteries drain like there is no tomorrow when wifi is enabled.... Bluetooth not so much.

 

[hack__you]

dont wash my mug hon, it's downloading house s06e05 from the coffee maker

 

[hack__you]

dont wash my mug hon, it's downloading house s06e05 from the coffee maker

 

[wildwell]

I wonder how this will force Bluetooth to improve?

 

[Guest]

No need to wait 2010, www.goomeo.com a mobile social network, use the same technology : file, contact, mp3 sharing between wifi mobile.

 

[r3t4rd]

[citation][nom]koom[/nom]No need to wait 2010, www.goomeo.com a mobile social network, use the same technology : file, contact, mp3 sharing between wifi mobile.[/citation]
www.goomeo.com is already next on the chopping block for the RIAA.

 

[frenchy]

I'm not against wifi-direct but I do have one concern about it. With that more many devices using wifi such as keyboards, mouse etc, won't there be to many signals in an area? Causing a slow down in data transfers?

 

[cscott_it]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Jesus, think POSITIVE people! Not DEMONIC! Wait, most of you are Atheist's, who am I kidding. That means be criminals! Right?[/citation]

This seems sort of off topic bud. Last time I checked though, religion had nothing to do with people doing evil things. Nutjobs come in all flavors and nothing inhibits immorality aside from choices the person makes.

\back on topic\

Any-way, I'd like to see the white papers in the near future and a chance to look over the preliminary testing.

 

[agentjon]

Does this mean it would be possible for me to roam a 35,000sqft office with a wifi "headset" and still be able to get my phone calls? This would be AWSOME!My bluetooth headset has a very limited range and the entire office is "wired" for wifi.

 

[De La NoChe]

Its about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! w00t!

 

[Zoonie]

WiFi will never take BT's place unless this new specification uses less or equal amount of energy than BT. We already have issues keeping our BT devices alive longer periods, so energy efficiency should be concern nr 1.

My opinion anyway.

 

[cookoy]

sh*t, just bought a bluetooth usb device. is that the WiFi-draft-kb (kill bluetooth) specification? I'm still waiting for USB 3.0 It's supposed to be super fast, except for the implementation.