昨年の１0月にノキアは新しいBluetoothのエクステンション(Bluetoothと同じような機能を持つが別の物 / 追加機能）としてWibreeを発表していましたが、WibreeをBlueoothにディフォルトで織り込んでしまうことになったようです。
BluetoothとWibreeを違うものとして作るのではなく、Wibreeの利点をBluetoothに吸収合併してしまうとの事。Wibeeの利点は何と言っても消費電力の少なさ！Bluetoothの数分の1の電力ですんでしまう＝電池の持ちが長くなる！
このWibree入りBluetooth対応製品が発表されるのは2008年の第一クオーターごろとのこと。
ノキアいわく、I-PODとノキアのスポーツセンサー（？正しい名前しらん）、ソニエリとFossilの腕時計のような商品に適した規格になるとの事。そりゃバッテリーの持ちがBluetoothより数倍よくなるって事はもっと色々な機能がつけられる、又は電池の持ちが長くなるってことですしね。
Bluetoothはヘッドセットのための機能だけではない。
カーナビ、車載電話、PCと携帯電話をBluetoothでつなげて携帯電話経由（携帯電話のパケットで）インターネット接続、他の携帯電話との通信、PCとの通信、その他。
ビバBluetooth。
こんなに便利なのになぜ日本ではBluetooth製品が他の国に比べて極端に少ないのだろう？もっと日本国内でBluetooth製品が増えてくれるといいんだけどなぁ・・・。
Wibree
http://www.wibree.com/
Appendix…
Nokia folds Wibree into Bluetooth
By Tony Smith
12th June 2007 11:42 GMT
http://kaimonotai.isl.hk/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=41
Nokia launched its Wibree personal area network technology in October 2006 as an extension to Bluetooth. Today, Wibree became Bluetooth. The Nokia-led Wibree Forum is to merge with the Bluetooth SIG, the body that oversees the wireless standard.
Wibree, which has been under development within Nokia since 2001, was established as a very low power technology for networking nearby highly portable devices. Like Bluetooth, it was planned to operate in the 2.4GHz band, connecting devices within a 10m range. However, its speed was capped at 1Mbps and was more about exchanging small packets of data and control information than transmitting data in bulk, as Bluetooth is often used for.
Click here to find out more!The applications Nokia had in mind are links between phones and watches – the kind of thing Sony Ericsson showed off last year with the Bluetooth watch it co-developed with Fossil. Nokia also mentioned sports sensors – again there’s a precedent: Apple’s iPod+Nike pedometer-on-your-music-player gadget.
Nokia’s pitch in the past was that these apps are more suited to the cheaper, lower power Wibree than Bluetooth. Unlike the Zigbee wireless technology – which, given the similarity of the name, may have been the inspiration for Wibree – Nokia’s suggestion delivers a higher bandwidth. Zigbee is a 2.4GHz technology that delivers up to 250Kbps at 1-100m.
Bringing Wibree and Bluetooth together will guarantee interoperability between the technologies, Nokia said, and provide the established standard with an ultra-low power profile, extending its applicability.
In a way, the move is a failure on Nokia’s part to convince the world that it needs a new, separate standard for the wireless connections Wibree of was designed for. Especially, since Wibree was always designed to be Bluetooth friendly. Perhaps the Finnish phone giant should have submitted the technology to the Bluetooth SIG in the first place.
Bluetooth’s roadmap calls for the development of a version of the technology founded upon the WiMedia Alliance’s standard implementation on ultrawideband (UWB) to allow it to attain even higher data speeds and make it more applicable for the kind of roles Wireless USB was developed for. The addition of Wibree will broaden Bluetooth’s appeal.
But when? Nokia and the Bluetooth SIG said the two specifications will be fully merged “in approximately one year” – sometime in H1 2008.
