Like the ESP32, it has Bluetooth LE 5.0 in addition to WiFi. Espressif’s website says multiple times that it’s going to be “cost-effective”, which is secret code for cheap. Rumors are that ...
Espressif Systems has been doing a good job with their ESP8266 product (of course, it doesn’t hurt that the thing makes a sub-$5 IOT device a reality). Only recently, though, have they started ...