iPhone official compatibility

RE: iPhone official compatibility

Locky — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:29:24 GMT

Also note there is a known issue with the timing on the iPhone broadcomm chips which cause this disconnection issue. Its been noted many times on this board. It may have something to do with the crystals, but they tended to operate slightly outside of expected Bluetooth timing causing disconnections. Though magically doesn't seem to be a problem connecting to Apple Watch ;) so perhaps its a design 'feature'.

RE: iPhone official compatibility

sidekick — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:56:53 GMT

On the software side, recently, while testing my bluetooth application on nRF51822 IC revision 3, with iOS (v9.3.2) based device (iPAD), got into a BLE disconnection problem. Apparently, the newer version of iOS does BLE spec. violation and hence had to come up with a workaround. You can find more about this issue here.

RE: iPhone official compatibility

Hung Bui — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:42:49 GMT

Hi Alex,

I don't think we have an official list on which iOS device is tested and compatible with the nRF51.

However, there is a defined Bluetooth qualification process that all Bluetooth's devices have to follow and go through several test and verification suites as required by Bluetooth SIG before it get to the market. You can have a look here. So, any device that claims it supports Bluetooth 4.0 (included BLE) must be qualified and are compatible with other devices that support Bluetooth 4.x.

Nordic chips and its softdevices are all qualified and listed in the list here. Please enter Nordic Semiconductor in the text box. Or you can find the list of our QDID here.

I assume Broadcom did the same thing with theirs. You can try to search for BCM43 or Broadcom.

For further information, I would suggest you to contact our sale representative to discuss about your requirements. Please let me know your location (your country&states).