when will WiTooth be here?

[witooth]

Hello All



I am new to forum discussions, so please forgive me if I am breaking any norms or not maintaining proper forum etiquette. Recently I have become very interested in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology. I don’t know very much of the technical details, but what I do know is that it is starting to pop up everywhere. I am noticing a lot more phones and PDAs that have both technologies included. My question is when are people going to start discussing WiTooth? If Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are going to be in everything in the future, people will probably start asking “does this phone have WiTooth technology in it?” What does anyone else think about this? I would love to hear different discussions about it. Is someone going to build a WiTooth chip that has both? Can the two be combined? Is anyone selling a WiTooth product yet? What is the future of WiTooth?

I’m sorry if you see this same posting in different forums, but I just want to hear from as many people as possible. I want to know more about WiTooth. Please forward this to anyone or start your own WiTooth forum.

Have a great day everyone.

[BlueDaze]

In a nutshell, the wifi and bluetooth chips can't be quite so compatible. The basic difference between the two technologies is that Bluetooth can work inside of any device, and has a limit of 8 devices that can communicate at once. To the contrary, wifi requires a processing chip in at least one of the devices communicating, and many more devices can be wirelessly connected depending on how you have things set up.

Bluetooth is also more power efficient so the batteries last longer on portable devices. Wifi has faster and usually furter connection distances.

Each technology- bluetooth and wifi- is optimized for certain purposes. While there's definitely overlap in what you can do, you'll accomplish some things better with one technology versus the other.

Blue Essentials has some great guides on Bluetooth technology:
http://www.blueessentials.com/info.php

IOGEAR also has an exceptional wifi guide in pdf format:
http://www.iogear.com/guide/WHY%20WI...(lo%20res).pdf

Hope that info helps!

[gpsmaze]

yeah bluetooth lets your cell phone or other electronic "communicate" with other devices within a 10 metre radius... i wonder what witooth does?

[BlueDaze]

The Bluetooth SIG has partnered with ultra-wideband (UWB) to develop new flavors of bluetooth that have faster speed and farther range. This technology is still in development at this time, although I did see a working demo at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The range of a hybrid bluetooth-uwb device will be several hundred feet, and the transfer speed will be 15-20 megabits per second, meaning that the range and speed will be competitive with wifi technology. Products using this technology are slated to appear on store shelves in the second half of 2007. For more info on Bluetooth check out http://www.BluetoothWirelessLife.com or http://www.BlueEssentials.com/info.