Anyone know what the new BT 3.0 card is in the new XPS?

I'm wondering if you can buy the new Dell 3.0 BT card to slap in my 1645 that has the Dell 370 2.1 BT card in it. I'm assuming it's a half mini pcie?

 

The SXPS 16 has two standard size minicard slots, and one single half mini slot. That's not the only difference. Although each slot are physically similar, each one has different types of BUS connectors to it. The WWAN mini slot (usually for broadband cards) has the PCIe interface, the PAN mini slot (equiped with Bluetooth device) is USB only, and the WLAN half mini slot (WiFi&WiMAX combo devices) has both PCIe and USB.

In theory you should be able to put in any card you want and load up the drivers, and it will work. I looked up what specs I could find on the new 3.0 chip and all I can tell is that it's standard size minicard (on the XPS 17), so it would probably fit in the same PAN slot that current devices use.

Now where to buy it is another story, might have to wait for someone to sell theirs on eBay. Curious to know what 3.0 profile supporting hardware you have that you'd even want this...

 

Gaah,

Thanks for responding. I was looking into BT 3.0 for faster file transfers via my BlackBerry (music, etc). From what I've read it only matters that the source device uses BT 3.0 since it backs the huge files via wifi. Though I could be wrong and the phone might need to support BT 3.0 as well, not sure. I'm sure however that new phones coming out will support BT 3.0 in the near future.