Bluetooth 4.0 with low energy (almost) finally ready to roll

Molasses, snails and glaciers: none are slower than an organization developing a new wireless standard. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is no exception — it’s been nearly three years since it announced it would roll Wibree into Bluetooth and four months since it made Bluetooth 4.0 official, but still no dice. This week, the SIG says the low-power specification is ready for action, its minutiae finalized. However, fine print in the org’s press release disagrees. The main reason for Bluetooth 4.0 was to include lower power devices, but that all-important integration is still pending a “before June 2010″ completion date. That means we still won’t see Bluetooth-toting cats till the end of the year, and we have no idea what SIG has accomplished in the meanwhile. Press release after the break.

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