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- Otto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14The name is a portmanteau of "Wi," for "wireless," and "bree," for "crossroads" (Old English).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wibree#endnote_wibree-name - M3RCINIAN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Woo yay. More battery life for my mobile.
- relaxiknwarchie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is good news for my company... We will be looking into this for sure. were are just starting to use bluetooth the send saved data and its limited to only a few of our products due to power consumption.
I'll be looking forward to this! - HappyScrappy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It wouldn't be a wireless standard without an awful name.
- bovester, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Unless MS decides to come up with their own standard, which wouldn't be unlike them (but pretty dumb overall) this would be a possible option.
- Seidoger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2No. For your mobile you'll have in 3 mobiles.
- imakeartwork, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Could this possibly make Microsoft Surface more of a reality.
- bovester, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yeah it's lower power but it's half the speed of Bluetooth (2.1Mb/s vs. 1 Mb/s) so it's not a HUGE advance.
- DuffDemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I should also point out as with all standards there's also a competing standard that's quite well advanced called Zigbee. You can already buy products using it like for instance a wireless electric skateboard !
- mikkelbg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2The article doesn't say much, would like to know more about the technology (ex. how does it differ from bluetooth?) and the specs.
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sometimes bandwidth just isn't necessary. Look at wireless keyboards and mice: how much data could you possibly push over that link? And yet, we still use Bluetooth for them, a hugely overcomplicated wireless protocol. Wibree cuts the crap, and hugely improves battery life for these devices (so we can measure it in months rather than weeks or days, or even hours in my last wireless keyboard's case).
TV/Radio/Receiver remotes, small device links, etc. - darkstorm777, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Thats something along the lines of what I was wondering. This is something they would need (an industry standard, not a MS standard) to have other electronics "talk" with eachother
- kuujjuaqguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Holy Crap, how did this site get the info 2 HOURS before it was released to the public? LOL
- Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0You guys do know that computers can support multiple standards, right. Either through a hardware upgrade or a software update.
- grinndaddy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I've always had issues with Bluetooth, especially with it's power consumption. It's good to see it's moving in the right direction.
- gbriggs12, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4@ doctorsax
Maybe the 'Bree' stands for the village east of the Shire in LOTR where the big people (like Barliman) meet with the hobbits (like Frodo). Wi is for wireless and Wibree is all about letting big power-consuming devices like cellphones talk to little-power consuming devices like swatches. - Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Still sounds gay to me, especially using the term "portmanteau" in a sentance.
- bobdole369, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0In all seriousness, as long as I have the strength I will NEVER let anyone monitor anything on me healthwise, with anything but a wire.
- bobdole369, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0I'm in ur heartz transmittin ur beatz?
- peterberry, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Dugg just for the LOTR reference
- bovester, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1Do a little research before making dumb comments like that.
"The name for the new low-power wireless standard called Wibree is an amalgam of "Wi," for "wireless," and "bree," from an Old English word for "crossroads," or a place where two things come together."
http://www.wirelessnetdesignline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=STV0Z35UDRNZ2QSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=193400214
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