Bluetooth 5

RE: Bluetooth 5

pcbreflux — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:42:39 GMT

Please keep us informed without asking regional sales manager. 4x the range means 40m or 200m?

RE: Bluetooth 5

SRA — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:19:13 GMT

v5 apparently uses a new physical layer... So I'm guessing that means new hardware. My curiosity is WHEN we'll see this.

Also if the faster throughput (2Mbps) are something that might make it to a 4.3-4.9 version that may be upgradable to. Although as it is, most commercial devices don't even support 4.2... Apple :\

RE: Bluetooth 5

RichieJH — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:33:03 GMT

Oh goody, can't wait to hear more. Shame it won't apply to current silicon though.

RE: Bluetooth 5

Dave_couling — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:42:25 GMT

SIG updates like this reflects acceptable specifications for radios that qualify under the Bluetooth Spec. So this range increase means that devices with longer range are still compliant. They didn't invent something that increased the range.

Before, if your chip or module exceeded +10dB, it would not be considered compliant under the SIG.

-DC

RE: Bluetooth 5

John Leonard — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:35:39 GMT

Range increases necessitate silicon changes. Nordic is as always committed to supporting the latest Bluetooth developments, stay tuned.

RE: Bluetooth 5

MartinBL — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:17:28 GMT

For questions about upcoming features and releases please contact our regional sales manager for your area. If you don't know who that is you can send me a PM and I'll put you in touch with him.

RE: Bluetooth 5

Anne van Rossum — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:31:36 GMT

We're especially interested in the support for the functionality for connectionless services like location-relevant information and navigation.