We did add support for the portables since the Central was released, but unfortunately it is taking a long time to get it through QA. We seem to have introduced some new bugs in the Receiver server which we have to fix before the update can be released. This is a live and official project, though!

The issue with Pearl isn't really compatibility (although the protocol is substantially changed) - it's just that the speed will be limitted by the Central hardware. We can't do anything about that. There's no point connecting a 100Mbit Ethernet adapter to USB 1.1.

Rob