Future Bluetooth

Information on Future Bluetooth Specifications

Backward compatible with 1.1
Baseband platform already available from Ericsson Techonology Licensing
Adaptative Frequency Hopping (AFH) provides better immunity to interference from other devices (such as 802.11 devices)
Scatternet ability (Running multiple Piconets simultaneously, making it possible to interconnect piconets)
Extended SCO (ESCO) (whatever that means)
Improved QoS
Faster connections then in 1.1

First news/rumors

Backward compatible with 1.1 and 1.2
This version is rumored to contain new speeds of 4,8 and 12 Mbps.
A new way of communication: non-hopping narrowband connections, which sounds like a broadcast channel that can be read by all devices in the coverage area.
2.0 dispenses with the master/slave situation making every device able to keep a piconet running, while as in the 1.1 spec if the master leaves the piconet is dropped for all slaves
The release of the 2.0 specification will propably be delayed to 2004, even though there are already prototypes running in Ericssons labs