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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by elcritch on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:39PM (#19784047)
Then again based on the trajectory of phone sizes the past few years, it might not be too far off in a couple of years. ;)
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by shaklee3 on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:02PM (#19784477)
No, it's impossible. Antenna theory dictates what the size of an antenna can perform at. Without significantly reducing the noise temperature of the antenna much farther than anything else out there, it will never happen. And noise temperature is pretty much guided by physics at this point.
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by BenjiWiebe on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:06PM (#19784494)
He's saying we might soon have pizza-sized phones.
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by shaklee3 on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:12PM (#19784525)
Ah, that's more likely :).
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by mrep on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:00PM (#19784162)
I'm not a hardware guy, but i doubt it. They would need to reduce the size and power requirements by an order of magnitude each of which we are currently struggling to do nowadays. Most importantly though, the wavelengths they are using i do not think penetrate buildings well and I don't think any of other wavelengths can effectively transmit that much bandwidth through buildings from space efficiently/economically.
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by derekp7 on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:28PM (#19784320)
Not only that, but phased array relies on the radio signal hitting different antennas at different times. So the array of antennas have to be spaced a minimum distance apart depending on the wavelength used.
Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by wmf on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:47PM (#19784396)
No, elcritch is saying that phones will be the size of a pizza box in a few years.