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Bluetooth

  • Broadcom Bluetooth Stack SDK Now Free

    In an amazing about-face, Broadcom have released their Bluetooth SDK (Both the desktop and Windows CE versions) for free on their website, all you need to do is provide some basic information to register and you’ll receive a download link via… Continue reading

  • Windows Mobile 5.0 Bluetooth Virtual Serial Ports

    Among the fairly modest enhancements to the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 5.0 is a new unified system for assigning virtual COM ports. Previously this was only exposed to the user via OEM provided plugins. Very often you were… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Experience Icon Program

    The Bluetooth SIG have introduced a new branding initiative to help clarify what functionality a Bluetooth device supports using a number of simple icons for popular applications of Bluetooth. The current 5 icons are:- Print (Hard Copy Replacement Profile, Basic… Continue reading

  • Stop Broadcom Stack Displaying Browser

    One of the features of the Broadcom stack is that when you attempt to connect to a virtual COM port it will show the user the Bluetooth Manager and ask them to select a paired device to connect to. You… Continue reading

  • 32feet.NET v2.0 Beta 1 Available

    I’ve posted a Beta build of 32feet.NET to the Files section of the site. Please read the file description for a high-level list of changes. This release is the first to be built against .NET v2.0 and will resolve issues… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Profiles

    This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a couple of years and just never got around to it. The table below is an attempt to document the Bluetooth profiles supported on various flavours of Windows. Because Windows… Continue reading

  • Any Port in a Storm

    A user posted an important observation on the Bluetooth COM support in Windows Mobile 5 here on the microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer newsgroup. The problem is that while the system allows you to create virtual COM ports for all your paired devices which… Continue reading

  • Divert system audio to a Bluetooth headset

    In the Windows Mobile 5.0 audio gateway implementation there are a couple of control codes to turn on audio routing through the bluetooth headset/handsfree device. I’ve only tried this with a couple of devices and had mixed (That’s a really… Continue reading

  • AKU 2 = Woohoo

    Some great news from Jason Langridge – not only will AKU 2 introduce the long awaited messaging feature pack, but also introduce the A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) Bluetooth profile to support mono and stereo audio devices such as headphones and… Continue reading

  • Developer Developer Developer Day Session

    The agenda for DDD Day II has now been published and for some crazy reason folks voted for my Bluetooth with .NET session 🙂 I’ll be covering both the Bluetooth and Object Exchange components of the 32feet.NET suite, I wont touch… Continue reading