Samsung Breaks the 4G Barrier 88
eastbayted writes "Samsung shifted wireless networking into a higher gear yesterday, demonstrating for the first time in public the power of it WiBro (Wireless Broadband) 4G technology. The company had two 4G demonstrations. A mobile stunt entailed providing delegates on a specially designed bus with a live broadcast of the forum, Internet access, and video on demand, all simultaneously at speeds of 100Mbps. Inside the forum venue, Samsung showed off its 1Gbps 4G service with 32 HD channel broadcast downloads, Internet access, and video telephony. The downside for users craving that kind of speed: WiBro won't be out until 2010, though Sprint has a 4G WiMax service in the works for later this year. The downstream speeds will be 2Mbps to 4Mbps, which seem downright sluggish — compared to WiBro."
I prefer... (Score:5, Funny)
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Lead underpants time... (Score:2)
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But to be fair, technology is improving not because they are pumping out more watts through the transmitter (although that helps range) it's more because computational power and the ability for them to multiplex more data on the proverbial line.
We have already been toasting our gonads with wireless data for the past 60+ years and I haven't heard of increased birth defects from people li
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In-pants energy (Score:2)
Now my cell phone is only ~900MHz which is pretty low frequency, and well studied. Wtf is going to happen if we're using a 5+ GHz signal and the device on-time increases?
Another brick in the wall (Score:1, Insightful)
wimax sluggish compared to wibro? (Score:1, Informative)
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This one goes to eleven (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm not the least bit impressed. I did 5Gs in a fighter jet in New Mexico.
4G, feh.
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Note the bar on the side? Its not just an arbitrary designation to get you to spend more money.
Unless you think that broadband wired internet was just a ploy to suck money out of your wallet...
Tubes is also correct (Score:5, Funny)
See! The Internet's not a truck that you just dump stuff on. It's actually a bus.
I'm more impressed by the speed of the train... (Score:1)
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Certainly nothing like the better european or japanese train networks.
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Samsung the new Sony? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Such as this monitor I am using right now. It's the Samsung Syncmaster 940BW [samsung.com]. I've had no problems with it... other than my video card is too old and can't push 1440x900.
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Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba... they probably all have bigger R&D departments. Sony hasn't done much recently, compared to all the other brands. In fact, the last Sony product I bought was a PS2. Their first Bravia LCDs were shit (comparing to Panasonic's G8 Viera LCDs), their audio products aren't much better than other brands (except they usually play ATRAC as well as MP3s, but big deal!), their DVD players do everything the cheaper ones do, their DVD recorders do everything the other ones do (sometime
Re:Samsung the new Sony? (Score:4, Interesting)
I remember when Samsung was a crummy Korean electronics company selling crummy Korean electronics. At the time, I was a token Caucasian working in a similarly crummy Korean company that made equally crummy products. I thought to myself, "No way. These guys aren't Japanese. No one will ever rival the Japanese."
Shame on me. Especially considering the fact that I was around when Sony, a Japanese company no one had ever heard of, decided to try and sell these tiny crappy transistor radios in the US. The rest, as they say, is history.
Yeah, I'd agree. Samsung does seem to come out with a lot of new products. Any one of them would be a worthwhile purchase, especially given the fact their products tend to also be less expensive than their competitors.
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I just walked around their booth (hah! ok, their "massive quadrant of the show floor") at CES 2006 and just shook my head in amazement. They are the largest flash manufacturer (as well as having a large share of the phones, mp3 players, cameras, flash cards, etc that use it), they are the largest LCD panel manufacturer AND one of the larger plasma panel manufacturers (why worry about competition? Just sell them both!) meani
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They were one of few majors I could find that made an MP3 player that played OGG format files...
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When do they start trying to screw me?
wheee (Score:2)
Why not just use roman numerals, and make it a regular sequel? Then they could just call it WiII.
Re:wheee or wiII (Score:1)
Why not just use roman numerals, and make it a regular sequel? Then they could just call it WiII.
I claim prior art. All your patents are belong to Will.
If the trunk is running at 4 Gig (Score:1)
This would only be useful in places with very wide bandwidth trunk pipes.
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But I was thinking of everyone else. I grew up in the boonies and didn't live in a city of more than 1000 people until I was 13.
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WiBro? (Score:1, Redundant)
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Who the.. (Score:2, Insightful)
The next slashdot poll should be
My cell phone supports
1. Analog
2. 2g
3. 3g
4. Cowboynealg
5. I don't have a cell phone you insensitive clod!
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-Erwos
[1] You know what I mean.
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WiBro? (Score:2)
Will Wii want WiBro or will WiBro be brought to Wipro? Why will WiBro beat WiFi finally, a feat for we wee ones? Fie!
Still waiting.... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Unlimited GPRS web and e-mail is under $6/month with T-Mobile. I have unlimited GPRS (no restricted ports) for $15/month through T-Mobile, and I can roam on 3G networks in Europe and Asia, as well (there is a data fee, but I don't remember how much it is, but it was very reasonable. Something like 1 cent per kilobyte).
How much more affordable do you want?
Phasers On "Killer App" (Score:2)
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Plus, with some extra software upgrades, you can detect and track stealthed aircraft.
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There's been some interest in using cell sites as bistatic radars. Stealth aircraft work by having very low reflectance on a direct line back to the source, so if the radar transmitter and receiver are in the same location, there's almost no reflection. But if the transmitter and receiver are in different locations, stealth geometry has little effect. A "bistatic radar" is such a radar.
So the concept is to have multiple emitters and receivers, all tightly coordinated. That's to some extent what a cell
In Other P.C. News... (Score:3, Funny)
Selling point (Score:1)
Leapfrog (Score:2)
The typical 2Mbps 3G data connection doesn't appeal to me that much, i can find that sort of speed in almost any coffeeshop in the country. However a gigabit speed connection would change everything. I could drop my home phones, broadband and existing cell service to move to 4G, so even if it turns out expensive it'd be ok.
So "G" is a measurement? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Wireless Brothers? (Score:1)
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Shiiiiit, that would be truly funkadelic.
Sprint Internet Access (Score:1, Offtopic)
I hate wireless carriers, and I don't believe a word they say until it's a reality.
New Ford cars break the '07 barrier! (Score:1)
Will cost $150 a month (Score:2)
wibro in philippines (Score:2)
North america is again, lags behind everybody. Time to pack bags and move elsewhere.
2c
Off-Topic: Samsung is Korean (Score:2)
Not the first show (Score:1)
Somebody tell me (Score:1)
Communications Theory 101: The Shannon Limit (Score:2)
If the SNR is very high and so is the bandwitdth, you can transmit a lot of data. We could already do that with things like optical and electrical cables, microwave links, etc.
Some features of a wireless link can help you improve SNR. For instance, you can use things like rake receivers [wikipedia.org] to reduce multipath interference. But you're never going to do all tha
This is great news! (Score:2)