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Experimental 4G Phone Service Faster Than Cable
JymBrittain writes "NewScientist reports that Japanese researchers have achieved blistering rates of transmission for cell phones that allowed for viewing of 32 high definition video streams, while traveling in an automobile at 20 kilometers per hour. From the article: "Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100 megabits per second on the move and at up to a gigabit per second while static. At this rate, an entire DVD could be downloaded within a minute." These transmission rates were achieved using new experimental methods of multiplexing."
What happens when you leave the parking lot?
For the metric challenged 20 kmph is about 12 mph.
Somebody else can supply the furlongs per fortnight.
if your device has enough memory to hold it and is fast enough cpu-wise to sustain a decent gbit pipe. Regular consumer pc having drives fast enough to get a dvd in a minute?
.3gp video and the file size for an entire DVD is less than 50mb. I converted the Terminator DVD for use on my PSP (MP4) and it comes down to 287 mb, with stereo and wonderful clarity. No need to download 5+gb's just to watch a movie.
It's not about a device having enough memory to hold the download - it is about having a pipe that can push large amounts of data. Streaming video/audio, which will come to a handset or other mobile device thru the air.
I think the DVD comparison is more about size than content.
There is no need for movies to be gb's when viewed on a handset - As an example, my phone (Motorola E680i) plays
If you talk about a 7" widescreen LCD for use in a car, then you would see files larger, but again, nothing along the lines of 5+gb.
The content won't be targeted for download and storage, just streaming. Of course, some of us will find an excuse to archive it, but that's another story...
The problem with lots of digital radio nets is sharing the bandwidth. WiMAX, for example, promises 155Mbps over several kilometers footprint. But in Manhattan, a 2Km radius includes maybe 1M people most afternoons. That's 155bps, 20 bytes per second, per person. <n>G tech usually has fairly widely spaced towers. Even at 100Mbps, they're going to have to put towers only a few meters apart to blanket public spaces with any traffic at all.
Real mobile broadband isn't going to be addressed until perhaps phased array antennas let us share the same frequency with many physically separated transponders. Then we'll be multiply info capacity in the same radiation bandwidth. There might be some interim solutions with bittorrent-style swarms, which increase available network capacity directly proportionally to the number of nodes crowded into a space. But latency and the possiblity of high simultaneous demand for nonredundant objects make that protocol unsuitable for people's personal phones. 4G research will have juicy fruits. But these research results aren't bringing mobile wrist-TV phones to the masses anytime soon.
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Currently, data transmission over mobile phones is priced per packet. There are packages to have less expensive usage, but packages themselves are either expensive or limitative (certain kind of data only, or only given connection points). Imagine how high the price can go if you begin to watch a movie everytime your commuting ! ... and, of course, no P2P downloading either !
hey i consider my wife a geek/nerd as she is a conservation/sustainable whatever biologist ... and she would buy peopl emagazin and she is wathcing channel E .......
.... I am embarassed when she buys people magazine in the supermarket ..... it is just soooooo not geeky .... and she does not read slashdot or willing to watch anime with me ...... nor play wideo games .... and i was happy that i married someone with a super geeky carrier ........
...... isn't there a way to geekify your wife ?
.... here in Costa Rica GPRS is experimental for te last 2 years so it is cheap ... but being experimental it is sometimes down or unacceptable slooooooooow ...... and no MMS ...... ... her maybe in 2099 you will be able to watch wideo streams on a phone .. evenmy cable si too slow for streams .... well at least i have good weather unless it is the rainy season ...
my God
nah i go back to watching whatever boring movie she just rented
hmm returning to phones
well i just look at my all-featured EDGE/GPRS/whatever cameraphone and wonder if it is fun to send pictures each other and stuff
Some how i don't think you would like it, despite the fast Internet connection (Utah was that state that decided to pass a law that mandated all ISP's filter their connections if asked by the customer, threating jail time to those who didn't)
Oh, cry me a river. So what if ISPs are required of offer the customer the optional filtering of content? What's wrong with a government responding to the wishes of the people? Different areas have different laws, and Utah parents decided they wanted to be able to control what content comes into their homes. When they ask me if I want it I will say no. And no, not because I can't live without pr0n, but because I don't want to deal with a filter that blocks websites I might want to read for whatever reason. The same reason I turned Google's SafeSearch off.
Further more, Provo is the town that is home to BYU the LDS Church run school (i don't think you could really call it a 'school' it really should have it's accreditation revoked for, among other things, it's depressing lack of academic freedom).
Give me a break. I've attended BYU and it very much is a school, just as much a school as any other private school is. The keyword is private, meaning that whatever limitations or expectations the governing body wishes to enact is completely up the them. Nobody is forced to attend the school and it receives no money from the government. As far as it's "lack of academic freedom", I'm not sure what you mean. The only thing that comes to mind is the religion credits required for graduation, but that's what you'd expect from a school funded and owned by a church. Other than that there is a dress and honor code that students are expected to follow, but there's nothing very shocking in there, just your basic "be good a good boy" type stuff.
Which brings up another point, Provo is ~90% Mormon, I, who am Mormon couldn't stand to live in Orem (just a stones throw from Provo, in the same county) for 6 months (how i survived there i will never know)
Yeah, it's hard. Real tough. Watch out, they throw Books of Mormon at you.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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