Seeed Studio Bluetooth Shield

uspostalservice:
Any thoughts?

Yes - if you have the slightest doubt, stay away.

You know more than I do about your O/S but, more to the point, you could even be buying into much the same sort of grief you were probably going to get with the Seeed, and that has nothing to do with the Android. Further, while I guess BLE will eventually be the way of the future, I don't think it is ready for the real world yet.

What you need to do is come up with a well-researched and compelling reason to embark on BLE. Failing that, read the last par of my previous again.

Here is the best I know about BLE

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/38009