The Vergecast Bluetooth Vacation Spec-tacular

Pleased holidays! Right here is our reward for you: over an hour of audio content material devoted to Bluetooth.

For those who’re fortunate this vacation season, chances are you’ll be given a brand-new cellphone, pill, or gadget geared up with the short-range wi-fi customary we’ve handled for many years. Although it has improved considerably since its introduction in 1998, it nonetheless has a lot of room to develop. Will Bluetooth get higher subsequent 12 months? That’s the impetus for as we speak’s Vergecast.

Naturally, we begin the present with a sport. The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Chris Welch sit in for a spherical of Bluetooth Jeopardy! — hosted by senior editor Sean Hollister. We’ll refresh your thoughts on the fundamentals of Bluetooth and maybe train you a number of attention-grabbing details too. How effectively are you aware the tech? We’ve even set up an online game board so you can play along with the show.

Later within the episode, the crew will get again collectively to debate the state of Bluetooth, the way forward for the usual, and a few threats that face it within the years to return. Plainly Bluetooth has maxed out its bandwidth today, with corporations including their very own codecs atop it to help better-quality audio. How far more can it’s improved?

For the ultimate section, Nilay, Alex, and Chris are joined by Dr. Michael Foley, the Bluetooth Particular Curiosity Group (SIG) govt director from 2004 to 2012, to debate the previous, current, and way forward for Bluetooth. Dr. Foley shares the main points of his position within the evolution of Bluetooth and the challenges of getting corporations to undertake the usual earlier than it turned ubiquitous in each gadget.

We had numerous enjoyable making this episode, so we hope you get pleasure from it. Thanks a lot to everybody who listened to the present this 12 months. We actually recognize it. Have a contented, protected, and Bluetooth-enabled vacation. We’ll see you in 2023!