Customer Reviews

Bluetooth Profiles

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As a senior developer I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone working with Bluetooth. I had been looking for a book specifically about the profiles and was not disappointed with my selection. The author considers every conceivable aspect of the profiles and discusses their various relationships in a fresh and challenging way. In my opinion, the profiles are too understated in other books and too little understood by those who develop it. Like myself, I am sure other readers of this book will greatly benefit from its content.

This is an excellent source for the right person who is looking for it. If you are looking to find the nuts and bolts of Bluetooth profiles and what is under the wraps then you will find this book fascinating to read and do what ever you do. All you care is writing applications on bluetooth and looking for a book that can guide you, then this is probably not yours.

I was hoping this book was going to introduce and explain profiles in a more articulate and understanding way. It jumps right away and almost randomly into various aspects of bluetooth - in a very mixed up way. It does cover various details of each profile, but in such a tabular and stale way that it's very hard to continue reading. I enjoy reading the spec itself more than this book, which is a bad sign I'd say. This book is way too formulaic and is filled with too many tables/figures that don't add anything to the understanding of the subject - they appear to be fillers for the most part - eg it's not necessary to specify the bit breakdowns of almost every field of every message here? Too much raw data, not enough in depth understanding revealed.

One very good BT book I found was Morrow's Bluetooth Operation and Use - only one chapter on profiles but it's a much easier and more understanding read.

This book introduces all the profiles within the specification in a clear and dynamic manner. The mixture of illustrations and tables are used well, providing the reader with a clear representation of the subject.

The book introduces the relationship of the protocols and the profiles and looks at how they actually make up the applications we now see on the market. It continues providing an in-depth presentation of each profile, in a very well structured way. There is no randomness here! The profiles are presented with an insightful review of user expectations and possible future applications. Each chapter offers a presentation of the expected dependencies that a profile relies upon to get a fully working application. Sufficient detail is provided too, highlighting the idiosyncrasies of the Bluetooth protocol stack. Tables and illustrations are used well here.

In my opinion there is only one book on Bluetooth and that's Gratton's Bluetooth Profiles.

I picked up a copy of this expecting it to be just another book on bluetooth and was real surprised by what I found. As a developer I read a lot of technical stuff and most of it sends me to sleep, but this is a completely different approach to explaining how the profiles work. The book explains every profile and talks about the protocols in there context emphasizing the relationships. It makes you think about the user experience and how it should be developed. Awesome!

I looked at Bluetooth Profiles expecting to be bored by yet another technology book. I am a software developer going through some hard times and having to keep afloat in a drowning market. Keeping your skills up to scratch is really important if you want to stay in work in the current climate. This book was unexpectedly good. I already had a basic knowledge of bluetooth but now I am able to talk about it to potential employers with a lot more confidence than before. It was obviously written with developers in mind so I guess this isn't such a good buy for non-technical people. But for us developers it really does help to make sense of Bluetooth and I would recommend it for anyone wanting to understand the profiles.

I lent this book to a friend of mine and he refused to give it back, forcing me to be purchase another copy. What can I say Bluetooth Profiles IS the definitive guide to Bluetooth. No developer should be without a copy.

Amidst a near tidal wave of technological advances it is inevitable that a book discussing each breakthrough is bound to follow. Bluetooth Profiles emerged in the wake of this revolutionary wireless technology alongside many other books on the subject. It is my preferred choice, primarily because the author, Gratton, broaches the subject with such enthusiasm and respect for the development involved in taking Bluetooth to the consumer.

I was really looking for a book on how to use Bluetooth and what the applications were. This book is written for the geek and techno junky market and not the kind of person who wants to have the latest gadgets in their home and workplace. I was really frustrated to read on and on about profiles (what?) and technical data flow charts. The screen shots were the most useful part of the book.