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Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not all phones have UWB. On the other hand, they do have Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some phones have UWB. Zero phones have Bluetooth 6.0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, it hasn't been released yet. Is this your idea of a joke?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a joke. UWB adoption could easily stay ahead of Bluetooth 6 adoption. There's nothing requiring phone manufacturers to always update to the latest Bluetooth, just like there's still not very many 5G mmWave phones available.

It could go either way. Bluetooth 6 might be more familiar for manufacturers to implement, but if the hardware is different to support the accuracy, who knows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

"easily"? Please, name one device that has UWB and doesn't include bluetooth.

Besides, if this is included in 6.0 and assuming it does cost much more per chip, where's the harm in having a better feature set? This seems like an incredibly pointless discussion.