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19 megabits on 3G
haligan writes "Bell Labs research arm announced the development of two prototype chips that would allow mobile devices to receive more than 19 megabits of data per second on 3G networks." Power consumption is low enough for cel phone type applications.
It would be nice to have this in a laptop. I was sitting in the Minneapolis airport for a few hours this morning, and I was noticing all the laptops that are in an airport. Now Minneapolis has 802.11b access through most of the terminals, but the cost is 10 dollars for a day. Now if I could pay for 3G access on my monthly phone bill, and be able to use it on my laptop at no extra charge from anywhere in the country.
Hey I can't dream can't I
So does this mean we might see phones with 10BaseT RJ45 jacks in them?
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
A corrolary of Shannon's theorem on channel capacity is that the greater the capacity of the channel, given an amount of noise, the greater power is necessary for it to maintain a given rate of information transmission. In other words, the faster you want to pump the data, the more power needed to transmit.
Therefore, while these chips may need little power to receive, what about transmissions? Would possibly thousands of 19 mbit/s transmissions floating around in the GHz band possibly have an increased detrimental effect on living things? Sure it's small, but would it be a factor at all?
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Why would anyone need 19megabits to a cell phone? In Slovakia cell phone users can watch live TV streams on their phones using "only" GPRS which is .1 megabit which is the first service of this kind in the world. Check out the URL to a http://media.a3boot.com/ta3/16102002/mobilvizia.as f . I dont see the need for 19 megabits. This cellphone would require an insane amount of storage to make this even remotely useful.
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