Windows Phone 8 Bluetooth profiles revealed, OBEX confirmed

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Surur Davids

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Published on August 7, 2012

Design Name	Windows Phone 8
Member Company	Microsoft Corporation
Specification Name	3.1
Design Model Number	Windows Phone 8
Software Version Number	8.0
Qualification Assessment Date	August/06/2012
Listing Date	August/06/2012
Design Description	Mobile Phone Operating System
Profile / Protocol	Role / Version (If Any)
Serial Port Profile
Service Discovery Application Profile	Local Device (LocDev)
Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol	AVCTP 1.3 Target
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile	AVRCP v1.4 Target
Object Push Profile	Object Push Client Object Push Server
Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profile	Acceptor GAVDP 1.2 Initiator
Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol	Acceptor AVDTP 1.2 Initiator Source
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile	A2DP 1.2 Source (SRC)
Hands-Free Profile	Audio Gateway (AG) CVSD audio coding over SCO Hands-Free Profile 1.5
Phone Book Access Profile	PSE

The Windows Phone 8 Bluetooth profile list has finally been posted at the Bluetooth SIG, and it confirms that Windows Phones will be able to both send and receive objects, though the exact nature of the data which can be transferred is still unknown.

OBEX is the only new profile added since Windows Phone 7.5, but the Audio/Video Remote Control Profile was updated from version 1.3 to 1.4, which adds the ability to browse and search media on media servers over Bluetooth, and the Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol was also updated from version 1.0 to version 1.3.

It appears the headset profile was also dropped, and the serial protocol remains missing, but we already know developers will have access to this feature.

Unfortunately the version of Bluetooth supported is version 3, rather than the latest version 4, which adds Bluetooth Low Energy, which allows phones to communicate with low energy devices such as sensors and smart watches.

The profile can be seen here.