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Gigabit Wireless Will Link Smartphones To TVs
judgecorp writes "More progress for WiGig, the proposal for 3Gbps wireless links on 60GHz radio waves. The WiGig group has signed a deal with VESA, the display standards group, to include WiGig as a fast wireless option in VESA's DisplayPort standard. As well as letting you use a TV as a display for your phone, without having to connect a cable, it will also make synching and file transfer quicker."
Most are still using nothing, wep, wpa or the wrong wpa-2 options. :-(
New things are always on the horizon
I *think* if you had a movie on your phone, you could watch it on your TV.
But, yeah. Is this maybe an excuse to try to sell us yet another TV since 3D isn't working?
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That's great.
Except that no one uses DisplayPort. It was basically invented in order to avoid paying royalties to Intel, who holds patents on HDMI and DVI. There are more TVs with VGA ports at this point, and that's unlikely to change.
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Sounds to me more like turning your phone into a high definition media player that gets rid of the need for a media server and blu-ray/DVD player.
If they put it into phones then it may also destroy some of the casual gaming console market. Phones often cost more than a Wii, but you still see young people with them all the time. One of my friends the other day was gobsmacked at a "kid.. with.. an iPhone" the other day. If a phone also doubles up as a games console then I can see parents jumping at the opportunity to cut down on costs.
which is totally what she said
This is exactly what I need to pull that phone to display trick Tony pulled in Iron Man 2.
You have to admit that's cool. Some of your friends are watching a movie and you point your phone at the screen to commandeer the display and show video of your recent surgery, or stupid cat tricks, or even live video surveillance of your empty bedroom...
I believe that in this microwave frequency range, the signals will be attenuated by atmosphere, so there will be natural limitations on range, especially at low power.
In ham radio, there are people doing 47 GHz propagation of morse code (CW) and voice signals via rainscatter. (think of weather radar) The record range is 343km from mountaintop to mountaintop using high-powered directional dishes (W6QI and AD6FP).
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
Nexus One has an 802.11N chip, and its a year old. The lack of higher end features was more about the cost of chips, and the power drain on using them, than the phone's capabilities to take those chips.
That said, I really don't see a large market for this kind of tech. I mean I have a PC sitting in my bedroom that stores all my files, and use PS3 Media Server to serve them up to my TV. I would never think: Hey lets download something large to my phone and stream it to my TV. It sounds retarded actually. The same thing goes for 'bringing videos to friends house'. Do you really see having large videos on your phone just waiting to play which aren't available for instant streaming on the internet?
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looking at what my phone does, and what I do with my PC and TV, I can envision a not-too-distant future where my phone will be my CPU+basic storage unit, and I'll plug it in to a real screen+keybord/mouse/speakers to use it as a desktop, or hook it up to my TV and Stereo for media use.
A cheap home server/nas (a $80 linux plug computer ?) for more storage and a permanent and fast net connexion, a powerful phone for comfortable destop use and HD+Hifi media playing, and I'm all set. Looking at my current phone's specs (HTC HD2) such power is only 2 or 3 generations away. The main issue is connectivity.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.