Extended Bluetooth: Wibree!

I had a bit of a rant about Wibree a while ago. As a standalone wireless access method, I didn’t think it had much to offer. However, Nokia has managed to persuade the Bluetooth Special Interest Group to merge Wibree into its Personal Area Network offering (see this article).

I like the idea of low power anything though. Bluetooth has always been too power hungry (running my E60 down in a couple of hours). If Wibree is incorporated as a Bluetooth extension (and firmware upgrade available) why would I use any other version (that is, high power) Bluetooth?

Unless, of course, no upgrade path was offered, and only new devices supported that “new and improved” Bluetooth.