The stock of Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) closed at $169.86 gaining 0.36% in yesterday’s trading session. Facebook has come up with a low-energy Bluetooth module which it hopes to use in a still-unspecified hardware device.
Reportedly, the Bluetooth transmitter is attached to a printer circuit board and the company has made its point in this particular regard. It has stipulated that the only one that can successfully make the installation is the original equipment manufacturer.
Put in a different way, it is a component set out to be integrated into some sort of device though the provider has declined to disclose it for now. There were filings made in June and one thing that is coming out to the limelight is that the company is developing new consumer hardware.
It was on Tuesday when Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote that the provider’s Building 8 group was trying to come up with a smart speaker and a video chat device. The smart speaker is expected to be almost similar to Amazon’s Echo as stated by some analysts.
Other reports indicate that Facebook in the recent times patented a modular device and it expected that it would function like a smart speaker with a touch screen. There are numerous clues attached to this filing and they tell something about some kind of drone or telecommunications-related product. Some documents bear the label Andrew Guhr, who as a matter of fact happens to be the Facebook lawyer.
The lawmaker’s LinkedIn bio brings him out as the Associate General Counsel, Telecommunications at Facebook. It goes without saying that indeed this particular description is raising a number of intriguing possibilities in line with the mysterious product.
It reads: “Advising on telecom laws and regulations around the globe on projects ranging from submarine cables, terrestrial networks, wireless networks, experimental technologies, and next-generation OTT services.”
The FCC filing brings it out as some form of Bluetooth LE 4.0 module. This happens to be a “low-energy” version of the wireless standard, manufactured for everything from beacons, entertainment devices to the fitness wearables .The provider’s numerous ongoing projects that would most probably utilize this.
