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Well, maybe, maybe not. The BT3.0 spec has been available, even though it's been in beta, since early last year. Some OEM's have already begun shipping BT 3.0 enabled gear, even though it's built on the beta spec. So if Nokia were playing with the beta spec, given that it's pretty much feature complete by the time it's beta and only the general debugging of the spec is undertaken from that point on, it would be very easy to implement it in the prototype tablet, and then simply update the firmware to handle the final spec when it was available, thus allowing them to have a device that was BT 3.0 compatible right at launch.

Of course, if the existing chipset could be brought up to speed from 2.1 to 3.0 with a simple firmware upgrade, then shipping or including the BT 3.0 spec at launch wouldn't be necessary as it could be added later.
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