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• Bluetooth 4.0 specification gets official, devices expected by Q4 2010

  

  Outside of Samsung's Wave, we're having a hard time thinking of a meaningful device that has shipped with Bluetooth 3.0 onboard. Kind of crazy when you think about it, being that the protocol offered some pretty promising stuff when it went official in April of 2009. Fast forward to today,...

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  July 6, 2010, 11:00 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Switched On: Stowaway from the PDA era

  

  Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Their screens lacked color and their apps lacked Internet access, but one thing the PDAs of yore had in common with the smartphones of today was text input that couldn't compare to a full-sized keyboard. The challenge, of...

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  May 18, 2010, 6:19 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Switched On: Stowaway from the PDA era

  

  Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Their screens lacked color and their apps lacked Internet access, but one thing the PDAs of yore had in common with the smartphones of today was text input that couldn't compare to a full-sized keyboard. The challenge, of...

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  May 18, 2010, 5:19 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• BT prepping a tablet with combined home phone and web slate duties

  

  Of course, every time you call it an "iPad killer," a BT-branded, slate tablet-shaped fairy dies. Still, while it's a bit silly for the UK provider to so rigorously avoid the comparisons, it's true that this forthcoming tablet might have something slightly different to offer. The tablet, which will measure...

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  May 17, 2010, 1:57 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Pip-pip, OnLive reaches agreement with BT, launching in Europe eventually

  

  We're still about a month away from OnLive dropping the green flag for American gamers who want to stream their games over the internets, but already the company is looking to colonize. It has reached an agreement with BT that sees the artist formerly known as British Telecom acquiring a...

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  May 13, 2010, 1:08 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Bluetooth 4.0 with low energy (almost) finally ready to roll

  

  Molasses, snails and glaciers: none are slower than an organization developing a new wireless standard. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is no exception -- it's been nearly three years since it announced it would roll Wibree into Bluetooth and four months since it made Bluetooth 4.0 official, but still...

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  April 21, 2010, 4:46 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Plantronics goes chrometastic with Explorer 395 Bluetooth headset

  

  Who says Bluetooth headsets aren't cool any more? Not Plantronics. Today, the California-based company released the Explorer 395 earpiece -- a $49.95 earpiece in both black and bronze flavors, and aimed at first-time Bluetooth users. How so? You get dedicated buttons for volume, power and phone call, which puts the...

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  April 20, 2010, 6:00 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com