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Bluetooth Revealed: The Insider's Guide to an Open Specification for Global Wireless Communications

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I found this to be a expectedly well-written book for one covering a technical subject so well. It is written from the perspective of insider-engineers who were hands on in the development of the Bluetooth wireless specification. I found the background, development history and methodology particularly facinating. The technical components of the specification are laid out in a logical sequence and the book is written in an easy to understand manner and with the intention that the reader understands the technology. These are obviously not guys off in some Ivory Tower, but rather they are highly skilled engineers who are willing and able to speak with those of us who are not so deep into the technology. Highly recommended.

For Beginner -- This book basically is the shorter and with more understandable english version of the confusing and lengthy spec. For a beginner, try to read the spec is not very easy. Tis book provides a good starting point. However, this book doesn't tell the whole story, such like the relation between L2CAP channel and baseband channel. The initiator of the L2CAP channel must be the Master of the piconet?? Such confuing concept is not well explained in this book for a beginner and when the beginner starting picking up, he should start finding many such ill-explained (or not explained) concept in this book.

For advanced reader -- This book tells something but doesn't answer the common confusion in the spec. One example is that on p.134, it said the L2CAP_Connection_Request is for a connection-oriented channel and a PSM value is needed. However, on p.130, the connection-oriented PDU, there is no PSM value and PSM only exists in connectionless channel as shown on p.129. Maybe the answer is somewhere in the book but I haven't found it. So in short this book resolves some confusions in the spec but it also brings up more confusions.

Overall, I think this book is worthy of owning and I strongly recommend it to everybody who who wants to study Bluetooth technology. However I don't think it deserves 5 stars as other people have given to it. It is just the author could have done better and I am hoping that they can make more explainations and solve many people's confusions (go to www.bluetooth.com forum and www.egroups.com bluetooth discussion, it is not difficult to find the common confusions that peopel have) instead of rewriting the spec with better english.

Well written with valuable content for wireless application developers that need to develop Bluetooth solutions. This book provides information complimentary to the actual Bluetooth specifications and allows one to really use the specifications to develop product. This book is good example of why software developers often purchase books from the authors of a given technology as it provides insight into the specification and technology that those not directly involved could! I highly recommend this book to others that are in need of Bluetooth information to build actual Bluetooth products and applications.

Very well written book! What I really liked about the book was that it provides a clear and succinct rationale for the way Bluetooth communication is intended to work that the voluminous Bluetooth specifications lack. The book clearly reflects the authors experience and involvement in the development of the Bluetooth communication standard from its inception. This book is an excellent compendium for one who wishes to understand Bluetooth communication from development and technology enthusiast perspectives. Finally, reading this book before one embarks on reviewing the Bluetooth specifications would be very beneficial.

EXCEPTIONAL! At last a definitive technical resource to answermy questions. The book provides a detailed overview of the BluetoothProtocol stack and the reasoning behind most of the decisions thatwere made for the V1.0 specifications. I recommend this book to thosethat are new to the Bluetooth wireless technology as well as theseasoned network technologists...

Bluetooth is a very much a bleeding-edge technology right now.Experts are hard to come by, and published reading matter is as rareas rocking horse droppings.

I'd recommend 'Bluetooth Revealed' asthus far it is the only BT specific publication I've read that isclearly written by a team that understands Bluetooth, not justregurgitated radio principles and good book writing etiquette, butBluetooth.

The book breaks down the layers and protocols and detailsboth what you can as well as what you can't do with thetechnology.

If like me, you need to get under the hood of thespecification as opposed to a lightweight coffee table read, then thisbook will fit the bill.

Cheers Nigel Cerulic Inc...

This book was incredible!!! As I sophomore, I was fascinated by wireless technology and was given the chance to do research on Bluetooth. I was struggling to understand the 1,500 page specifications. Ever since reading this book, I feel incredibly adept with the BT specs. Thanks to this book, I had the confidence to give a presentation to fellow students and professors on how the technology works.

Before I bought this book, I looked through the 1070 pages of the Bluetooth specifications and saw the need to write a book about bluetooth, which in a more understandable form describes this very important technology. After I received the book and read through most of it, I do not see the need for another Bluetooth book anymore. Most of the things in there are very well and understandably described without sacrificing the necessary technical details. Thanks, you saved me a lot of time. I also hope you keep it updated, when the next releases of Bluetooth come along. My best regards, Wolfgang Singer

I found the book very effective. In the country where I live books about Bluetooth are still relatively few and are far too basic for people with already some engineering background like myself. I enjoyed the nice balance between insights on what the process of creating a world wide standard looks like and the detailed but easy to read description of the standard itself. I would strongly recommend this book to those who want more than just a few illustrated usage cases.

Well organized with excellent content! This book provides excellent descriptions of difficult sections of the specification. This book compliments the specification and provided me with the information I needed to better utilize the specification in my application development. I highly recommend this book.