You can now pre-order Amazon’s new Fire Phone at the online retailer’s Web site. Except I wouldn’t. Not yet, anyway. Why? Fire Phone is missing one of the most important modern smartphone capabilities: Bluetooth 4.0. What’s Bluetooth 4.0? Its other names – Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Bluetooth Smart provide a clue. Bluetooth was originally […]
With iOS 7, Apple introduced iBeacons, a protocol that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to determine your location down to within a couple feet. We’ve already seen some innovative uses of iBeacons — for example, Tile uses it to help you find your lost keys and other items, while Apple uses iBeacons in its retail stores […]
Apple’s iOS software updates trickle out to millions upon millions of iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices following each release. And as those millions of devices are updated every few months, a healthy portion of users wonder the same thing: “Why the heck do iOS updates keep turning Bluetooth on?” People who use Bluetooth accessories […]
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