And bluetooth is an unreliable pain in the a**.
Tom
who has Bluetooth, 802.11a and 802.11b running in his house
> Bluetooth is too slow for multi-megabyte pix.
>
> In bits/second, Bluetooth is about 1 Mbps, 802.11b is 11 Mbps, 802.11a
or -
> g run at 54 Mbps.
>
> So with 802.11a or -g, you could theoretically transfer a 5.1 MP pic in
> 5,100,000 * 3 * 16 / 54,000,000 = 4.25 seconds (assuming 16
bits/colour)
> or less, depending on compression. Since most chips alternate green with
> red and blue pixels, and the dynamic range is less than 16 bits, the raw
> picture might take up
> 5,100,000 * 12 = 61.2 Mbits
> which would take just over a second.
>
> But if some lossless compression were used, might be three or more times
> faster at 54 Mbps.
>
> That's faster than writing to all but the newest flash cards.
>
> tOM
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