Apple is testing (or playing around with) Li-Fi according to iOS 9 code.

[techguy9]

Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/kyoufujibaya/status/682631142860820481/photos
In case you don't know what it is, it's basically Wi-Fi, but it uses light instead of radio waves. It's very early in development as of now, and can theoretically reach speeds of 224 Gbps.
Any thoughts?

 

[luhai]

Well it's not exactly new technology, and screen only suppose to add just 2 or 3 dollars, its very likely that apple is testing a experimental phone (as are other companies) in house to home in on the software.

The problem with Li-Fi is the infrastructure is deployment on a site is not trivial. It's one thing to drop a router and another to rip out all the celling lights and and connect them to the network.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/wysips-solar-charging-screen-li-fi-impressions/

 

[Fzang]

What's the draw in a home setting though? WLAN is a dying race, with online cloud hosting taking over our storage needs.

 

[bluechair1984]

What's the draw in a home setting though? WLAN is a dying race, with online cloud hosting taking over our storage needs.

Not sure what you are getting at here? What does wifi/lifi have to do with "cloud hosting"?

 

[Fzang]

Not sure what you are getting at here? What does wifi/lifi have to do with "cloud hosting"?

I can get 224 Gbps vs wifi giving me, what, 300 Mbps? But when are those speeds ever relevant, when the ISP is the bottleneck?

 

[techguy9]

Looks like AppleInsider picked up my news story tip and gloriously displayed on the front page : http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/ios-code-shows-apple-experimenting-with-ultra-fast-light-based-li-fi-wireless-data-for-future-
Hope MacRumors picks up mines too.

 

[Armen]

Looks like AppleInsider picked up my news story tip and gloriously displayed on the front page : http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/ios-code-shows-apple-experimenting-with-ultra-fast-light-based-li-fi-wireless-data-for-future-
Hope MacRumors picks up mines too.

Did they even give you credit for the find? If not, I'd write to them.

 

[techguy9]

Did they even give you credit for the find? If not, I'd write to them.

Just sent an email to them with my name
[doublepost=1453139543][/doublepost]And they now added it to the bottom of the article . Now let's see if MacRumors and 9to5mac pick it up too!

 

[FSMBP]

I can get 224 Gbps vs wifi giving me, what, 300 Mbps? But when are those speeds ever relevant, when the ISP is the bottleneck?

Do you know what Wifi's current top spec theoretical speed is? Just curious to gauage Li-Fi's 224 Gbps.

 

[techguy9]

Do you know what Wifi's current top spec theoretical speed is? Just curious to gauage Li-Fi's 224 Gbps.

If I'm right, it should be 1Gbps for 802.11ac.

 

[luhai]

I can get 224 Gbps vs wifi giving me, what, 300 Mbps? But when are those speeds ever relevant, when the ISP is the bottleneck?

Well for some countries a few select us cities, 1GB or above fiber connection is a reality and wifi would be a bottleneck.

 

[vertsix]

Awesome find.

Li-Fi is still very far off and it has serious disadvantages, but it's nice that they're testing it out.

 

[rasputinj]

good to know I thought Li-Fi was still very experimental.

 

[Aston441]

Awesome find.

Li-Fi is still very far off and it has serious disadvantages, but it's nice that they're testing it out.

Light flickering at 224GHz is going to give me a wicked headache.

 

[Starfox]

Um... that's probably not LiFi as in the experimental light-based mesh networking idea, it's LiFi as in HiFi but with Lightning. LiFi.