Samsung Breaks the 4G Barrier

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...

[Slider451 (514881)]

The WiMansierre

This one goes to eleven

[robla (4860)]

What does "breaking the 4G barrier" mean? The Samsung demo looks cool enough, but saying that they "broke the 4G barrier" means about as much as "this one goes to eleven". The "4G" moniker isn't well defined enough to use as a litmus test of anything other than "hey, if you thought that 3G was overhyped and overpriced, well, just wait until you see this!"

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[Kesch (943326)]

So wait, are you saying that 4G is LOUDER than 3G?

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[Karma Farmer (595141)]

Well, it's one louder, isn't it?

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[Durrok (912509)]

You know, it's kinda like 6 minute abs vs 5 minute abs.

Tubes is also correct

[Kesch (943326)]

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.

See! The Internet's not a truck that you just dump stuff on. It's actually a bus.

Samsung the new Sony?

[Anubis350 (772791)]

Offtopic perhaps, but it seems these days Samsung releases new technologies/products at a really fast pace. Not only that, their products tend to upper-middle of the pack (good feature sets, reasonably reliable, priced a bit higher than some of the competition but worth it). Seems to me like Samsung is becoming the new Sony... Discuss :-P

Re:Samsung the new Sony?

[value_added (719364)]

Offtopic perhaps, but it seems these days Samsung releases new technologies/products at a really fast pace. Not only that, their products tend to upper-middle of the pack (good feature sets, reasonably reliable, priced a bit higher than some of the competition but worth it).

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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[Dahamma (304068)]

Samsung isn't the new Sony - they have far surpassed whatever ever Sony was by now!

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

wheee

[macadamia_harold (947445)]

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

Why not just use roman numerals, and make it a regular sequel? Then they could just call it WiII.

Who the..

[ADRA (37398)]

f**k cares when it costs ass loads just to opt into this rediculously expensive market. I don't even see my fellow nerds using '3g' technologies of today since telocs keep the prices outragously high (at least where I live).

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 (553607)]

Ridiculously high? I pay $15 for unlimited[1] 3G internet access for my phone. Maybe it's time you switched providers.

-Erwos

[1] You know what I mean.

WiBro?

[Speare (84249)]

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....

[gamer4Life (803857)]

I'm still waiting for 3G or GPRS to be affordable...nevermind 4G. Perhaps the carriers will lower the prices for 3G or GPRS when 4G comes out... or maybe not.

Phasers On "Killer App"

[Doc Ruby (173196)]

Who's got a phased array radio network routing TCP/IP to mobile devices? Phased arrays offer huge bandwidth and little penalty for fast moving endpoints.

In Other P.C. News...

[creimer (824291)]

The term "WiBro" has been renamed to "WiPer" to maintain a gender-netural terminology. The "WiMe" and "WiNot" camps are filing suit for being excluded from this group. A spokesperson for the White House states that the president is staying the course with the "WiCare" group.

So "G" is a measurement?

[Short Circuit (52384)]

So "G" is a measurement? I always thought 1G, 2G and 3G were labels applied to generations. And all you have to do to have "4G" is produce a product sufficiently different from previous generations.

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[kalirion (728907)]

Um, what train? And what's so impressive about a train going 37 mph?

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[grahamsz (150076)]

You've obviously never been on an american train, some really do go slowly enough than an in-shape vagrant could jump onto them.

Certainly nothing like the better european or japanese train networks.

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[Millenniumman (924859)]

I think I'd rather walk than be shoved into a train which is as full as it can get, even if I go fast.

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[wguy00 (985922)]

But what if another train leaves Boston going the same speed?

Lead underpants time...

[EmbeddedJanitor (597831)]

Don't you get worried when one of these things is in your pocket slowly microwaving your gonads?

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[HaMMeReD3 (891549)]

They have a non-standard wimax network in vancouver, and you can actually feel the radiation coming off the receiving unit.

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

Leapfrog

[grahamsz (150076)]

If it's sufficiently better than 3G then we might just leapfrog it.

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.

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[Esion Modnar (632431)]

from another planet?

Shiiiiit, that would be truly funkadelic.