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Bluetooth For Java Review by anonymous
Only First Half Of The Book Is Useful!!!
The first half of this book deserves 4 stars. It makes bluetooth easy to understand by not including too much technical info like timing, etc. I have read other books on bluetooth, but they are too technical. It's like the author just copied the info directly from the RFC. If you are just working on high level application, then the first half of this book is for you. It explains the commonly used Java bluetooth API in simple fashion, and I like the source codes in the book. It is all you need to get start with.
The second half of the book is disappointing. It talks about programming with specific bluetooth simulator and other embredded devices. The info on the simulator is out-dated, because the company no longer offer free trial. So it is useless unless you buy it which I think should be very expensive. Same thing applies to the embredded hardwares. Those chapters are useless for me because they applies only to those devices, and I don't have them. So, I ended up skipping 1/2 of the book.
This is one of the few tech books that has a lot of blank spaces and photos. If you remove those blank spaces and photos, the thickness of the book may be reduced by at least 1/4. So there are not as much info as you think based on the number of pages of this book. But the first half of this book does deserve 4 stars.