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Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now (newatlas.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tibert@compuverse.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Compared to bluetooth :

  • 60% lower power consumption
  • Six times higher data transmission speed
  • 1/30th the latency
  • 7 dB improvement anti-interference for a more stable connection
  • Twice the coverage distance, and
  • 10 times more network connections

Notice it's not talking of compression yet, but raw connection performance.

Due to the US Huawei ban, the tech won't arrive to the US yet. Nor maybe ever until something is done.

https://consumer.huawei.com/za/community/details/Huawei-Nearlink-launched-new-wireless-technology-far-ahead-of-Bluetooth/topicId_276306/

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So basically like a compromise between wifi & bluetooth?

The thing is, people using bluetooth is not looking for raw performance. When they more performance, they'd go with wifi. Wifi data transfer is a thing.

Last but not least, it's Huawei...

Edit: Regardless of the privacy & security stuff, Huawei is known for coming up with a bunch of empty gimmicks (see: Harmony OS).

[–] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Better Huawei than some American corp.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm skeptical about all the claims and 60% less power consumption. Usually to get greater range, you need to up the power consumption. I'm not a bluetooth/electromagnetic spectrum expert though, so maybe they figured something out with the modulation or something.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's already different classes of BT. The common class used for most that is the 30 feet, another that's around 5 feet, and one that's like 200 feet.

But all of the claims seem farfetched. The range, power, and latency? Like they suddenly came up with all new tech that decimates BT that astoundingly? All while they're trying to BS themselves around about the tech ban not harming them?

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's probably just BS.