Now thats what I call fast...

[Guest jimbouk]

According to the Register, Samsung demonstrated their future 4g offering in Korea recently. In a specially adapted bus, they showed that at 60mph, a 4g device could achieve 100mb/s and at walking pace, the device could manage 1gb/s

Imagine being on per mb tariff with a device that can do 1gig per second!

Link to original news story

Edited September 1, 2006 by jimbouk

[Guest Prosody]

LOL

That is DAMN fast, 1 Gbps comes out at around 120Megabytes per second of real spead which is like.... using the 2gig data allowance on WnW in about 20 seconds... of course you'd need a device that could write to some kinda memory at that speed... otherwise you wouldn't see much gains from it. :D

[Guest m@...]

I think the standard they tested was 802.20 or Mobile Broadband Wireless Access

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.20

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/20/index1.html

[Guest Tech]

i dont even use 3g nor have a 3g fone (dont see the need to be honest) but damn! 4g?!?!?

[Guest Pondrew]

You like your data to download slow Tech?!?

[Guest Prosody]

You like your data to download slow Tech?!?

Gives him time to put the kettle on and such between pages :D

[Guest]

I think 4g will be a long long long while before it ever catches on in the mobile world (although it might happen faster in the normal computer broadband world) (especially for those out in the sticks where wiring things up aint cost effective)

as i think most of the operators got big time stung with the cost of 3g licences and are still recovering. Plus other than people on this forum (who clearly are a very very small minority) how many people do you know that even have a 3g phone let alone use video calling and any form of data transfer beyond picture messaging??

exactly i can name one and she is my girlfriend and that only probably because all my geekiness rubbed off on her :D :D

when mainstream people start using mobile data and find that 3g and then HSDPA and HSUPA are not fast enough then maybe networks in 5-10 years after that will see about 4g until then this is a whole lot of nice experiments with no real application or likely to be for years and years.

JEREMY

Edited September 6, 2006 by Guest