Is this the answer to all our bluetooth prayers?

[Bastian]

Surfing the web, I noticed that Widcomm just launched a new BT development kit for the PPC/Phone Edition (That's the one we have!).

You can find information here:
http://www.widcomm.com/Products/bluetooth_comm_software_btce.asp


This is what they got to say about it:

NEW!
BT-PPC/Phone Edition leverages current BTW-CE/PPC features and includes the following profiles (GAP, SDP, SPP, GOEP, OPP, FTP, SYNC, DUN, HSP, HFP & PAN).

Key features of this product:
Addition of WAN connectivity features
Implement cellular connectivity
Manage audio traffic routing to headset
Display radio signal strength (RSSI) on screen
Implement power management scheme (enable WAN connectivity while PPC is off/sleep)
Initial release OMAP platform



I am extremely interested to know if anyone knows where to find an installable app for our XDA's. The fact that they say that an initial release is only for the OMAP platform worries me slightly, because I think that only the orginal XDA was based on that.

Best regards,

Bastian

[DaleReeck]

I do not believe Widcomm sells directly to end users. They sell to OEM's to include in their product. The product can't be just installed. It has to be tailored for each device individually by the OEM. So, HTC would have to package the software into one of their ROM updates. However, since licenses for the Widcomm BT stack cost money, I wouldn't hold my breath expecting HTC to foot the bill to give us a good BT software stack. I don't know for sure, but its a reasonable guess.

Besides, the Widcomm BT stack has been around for a while. There wasn't a specific PPCPE as there appears to be now, but the current version would have worked as well as the Microsoft stack that HTC uses now. If they didn't get Widcomm then, I wouldn't expect them to add it now. May for the XDA III ;)

[Bastian]

Let's hope that HTC will do this in the future, because the current BT implementation sucks.

-Bastian

[alkandery75]

I think this isthe one for the new iAPQ h6300... As of the manual h6300 has the same BT Manager of other iPAQ devices but with some additional headset Profile, nothing about Handsfree Profile till now...