Recognize? This white cousin of the Nokia Twist 7705 briefly showed up on Bluetooth SIG’s website as the Twist 7505, but now the picture’s been eaten by a sad black square, and the description text taken over by some copy-and-paste disaster — probably the panicked work of some shaking webmaster after a phone call from Verizon or Finland. Apart from the obvious replacement of touch-activated buttons with physical ones below the screen, the camera’s apparently 1.3 megapixel instead of 7705′s 3 megapixel. There’s a chance that the hole at the bottom right of the screen has been patched up by a concave button as well, but we can’t tell from this low-res pic; at any rate, though, it’s certainly not the phone in Verizon’s lineup that we would’ve expected to be re-released as a slightly lower-end model.

Nokia Twist 7505 spotted paying homage to Verizon, and then disappeared originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bluetooth low energy and its predecessors (think Wibree) have been in the pipe for ages now, but we might actually see this tech take off en masse for the first time now that the Bluetooth SIG has officially added it into a release: 4.0. While Bluetooth 3.0 was all about high energy with the introduction of WiFi transfer, 4.0 takes things down a notch by certifying single-mode low energy devices in addition to dual-mode devices that incorporate both the low energy side of the spec plus either 2.1+EDR or 3.0. In a nutshell, the technology should bring a number of new categories and form factors of wireless devices into the fold since 1Mbps Bluetooth low energy can operate on coin cells — the kinds you find in wristwatches, calculators, and remote controls — and the SIG’s pulling no punches by saying that “with today’s announcement the race is on for product designers to be the first to market.” Nokia pioneered Wibree, so you can bet they’ll be among the frontrunners — bring it, guys.

Bluetooth 4.0 finally rolls low energy tech into a shipping standard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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