Bluetooth 4.0 Specifications Finalized

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has finalized bluetooth 4.0 specifications which was first unveiled in December 2009.

According to SIG bluetooth 4.0 includes three levels of specifications which could work separate or in tandem. bluetooth 4.0 works as classic bluetooth over the speed of 3Mbps like bluetooth 3.0, it will be capable to work with low energy devices like watches, pedometers, medical & health devices and at the last it provides high speed data transfer for mobiles, laptops, and other powerful technology gadgets.

The new bluetooth 4.0 will use 802.11g standard for the high speed data transfer and its specified range is about 200 feet.

The bluetooth 4.0 equipped devices are expected to reach the market by the end of this year or at the beginning of 2011.