Bluetooth 5, 4.2, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth LE...Confused Yet?
January 16, 2017
What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming is confusing, for sure.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (which sounds like a dental convention) announced Bluetooth 5 last June and officially adopted it in December. Or more formally, "The Bluetooth Special Interest Group officially adopted Bluetooth 5 as the latest version of the Bluetooth core specification this week." Unlike previous Bluetooth standards, there is no decimal point, so it is simply Bluetooth 5 and not 5.0.
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