Re:Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android...
by walterbell on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:34PM
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Would 60Ghz (300-500m for 802.11ay) be competitive in power consumption with VLP 6Ghz (3m)?
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Re:Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android...
by zamadatix on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:28PM
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Setting the data rate and transmit power to the same power sure, there isn't anything particular special about 60 GHz compared to 6 GHz other than 60 isn't going to make it through drywall.
Qualcomm has actually been releasing phone chipsets with 802.11ad for a while now. Intel did it for wireless laptop docking. Qualcomm's 5G modem also comes with 802.11ay but I don't know of anybody else that has deployed it yet.