GiFi Gets Nasty with 5 Gbps Wireless Transfer Speed
Move over Bluetooth, your time in the spotlight could be coming to an end sooner than we thought. Researchers down under at Melbourne University in Australia have recently unveiled an entirely new short-range wireless data transfer technology that could be introduced as soon as next year. GiFi, as it has unfortunately been dubbed, utilizes a 5mm square chip and a 1mm wide antenna requiring less than 2 watts of power to transmit data wirelessly at distances comparable to Bluetooth. Bluetooth 3.0, however, which is currently being developed, will be limited to 480 Mbps while GiFi has already achieved speeds of up to 5 Gbps. On top of everything else, GiFi operates on the 60 GHz frequency band which is for the most part unused. Of course the possibilities are endless. Portable electronics, computers, home theater multimedia equipment; imagine your set top box being able to receive wireless streams at 5 Gbps! You might not have to imagine for very long if all goes well. GiFi could be ready for prime time in 2009 and with a cost-per-chip of approximately $10, it shouldn’t take very long to be widely adopted.
Now this will make phone-to-phone transfer a pleasure instead of the chore it currently is.
The name definitely needs work.
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Agree that the name needs work…. how do you pronounce that? gee-fi? guy-fi? gih-fi…?
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you guys should hear about the stuff they are working on in japanthers testing of a super hasdpa network vi docomo that pulls 300 mbps ot bad at all for supper hsdpa radios
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Shut up Galvatron! We don’t care about what you think, because we can hardly make sense of it. Go away.
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GiFi isn’t any worse than bluetooth. First time I’d heard bluetooth I thought WTF? Who has a tooth that is blue, and wtf does it have to do with wireless? Haha.
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Go away, u always talking thrash n you don’t make sense. Get a life you always posting shity comments!
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I nominate “Jiffy”, speedy yet not male dominated (”guy fi”).
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damn pinktech, if that’s not how they are pronouncing it, it’s how they should pronounce it. Nice.
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@james: sorry apple fanboy your sicks and stones to me
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Galvatron…i can’t tell you are an idiot. GiFi and HSDPA are completely different, 1 is a local network and other is a wireless mobile technology.
And you are completely wrong. Super HasDPA? First of all, learn the acronyms, secondly there is no ’super HSDPA,’ thirdly Vodaphone has already announced that they are going with 4G by the being of next year. 4G = IP based mobile technology.
Also another thing you were incorrect about is the speed of the technology. 4G is capable of speeds between 100Mbit/s and 1Gbit/s. 300 is peanuts.
And where the hell did you get James to be an apple fanboy? Are you not a winblows fanboy then or are you just to stupid to understand what you , yourself are saying?
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Galvatron,
I am not a true fanboy of apple or windows. I am a fanboy of getting you to stop making others BGR experiences a poor one from your cluttering up the message boards with your idiocy.
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Wow James, for wanting to clean up BGR, you sure have added at least three posts of clutter to his one post. Good job.
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