Wi-Fi Direct Coming, Could Wipe Out Bluetooth

[asgallant]

Ehhh...I'm not convinced that this will be any good. They will have to sacrifice range for power efficiency, which puts the wireless accessories back into Bluetooth territory (either that or we'll be recharging our mice and keyboards several times per day). Wireless USB will be the way to go if it ever gets standardized and makes its way to the market.

 

[dman3k]

I don't get why wifi chips can't just enable bluetooth. Doesn't bluetooth run on a small range of radio frequency that wifi could handle (2.4GHz)?

Oh yeah, patents and licensing...

 

[yang]

I was never a big fan of bluetooth. Something about taking 30 minutes to send a 6 mb file just doesn't feel exciting.

 

[Manos]

Excellent news and sounds as if cheaper to also be implemented

 

[sailfish]

Yeah, having the bandwidth, distance and single protocol advantages of WiFi over Bluetooth definitely make this a no-brainer.