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Apple's Rumored to Debut First 5G iPhone in 2020 With Intel as Modem Supplier
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The increasingly shorter life cycles of fast moving consumer goods like smart phones, and the increasingly complex nature of the hardware and software of these same products means you simply cannot test them to the extent you used to be able to say, 10 years ago, and have the same level of confidence and risk you had back then.
Further, part of the drive towards greater complexity is being driven by the procurement functions in these large companies, who harbour the belief that a lowest purchase cost and playing one supplier off against another is a good strategy - it used to be perhaps, but not any more.
Look in to PICOS and aggressive supply chain management practices... you'll see that increasingly, lowest price does not equate to lowest COST or better profit levels over the lifecycle of that customer's product...
It's likely less power than the 5G transmitter. Overall the EMR on iPhones is right up to the legal limit.
Absolutely not - I am not worried about the IR radiation from FaceID at all - considering its brief nature. Unlike WiFi and other types of radiation.
More on this later, including ionizing vs non-ionizing radiation.
... and, the principle depends on the direction of the money flow.
Money Flow ...
If it is towards Apple, no morals or ethics.
If it is away from Apple, it is all about breaking a costly contract Apple foolishly signed about a decade ago.
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I would worry less about the individual phone radiation than the fact that millimeter wave have a short range, thus towers/emitters will need to be placed every second block. That's a lot of environmental radiation about to saturate our cities!
For me a uniform "charging port" is one of long term investment in my tech purchases. Like I said, I've been piling up 6 years of Lightning accessories so I can use it in various of devices for the whole family, not just a single phone, or tablet. When I pick one, and I will keep buying one. So looking at Apple branching out to USB-C while keeping one foot on Lightning, is a big deal breaker for me. I will simply wait.
Nevertheless, I think we're strayed a bit off topic on the article. Thank you for the discussion.
Principles? You do know that Apple is a company and only cares about your money right? Lets talk about Apple in China and discuss Principles.
Anything in excess will harm you. Staying in the sun for too long will burn your skin, drinking gallons of water will kill you. The fact is that radio waves from your cell phone are a microscopic amount compared to what’s already all around us both naturally occurring and man made. People very often confuse cellular radiation, radio waves, for nuclear radiation. The latter will kill you in even very small doses. The former is effectively harmless.
This is not a problem that Apple generate profits but there is no right balance now between what you pay and what you get. To continue good financial results they start to be a company that sell devices only for for very limited small group of consumers who do not have a problem to spend 1/4 price of new mid size car for a piece of electronics that obsolete extremely fast nowdays. I always thought that the goal is to generate profit and to offer a technology for everyone at a reasonable price (this is how Apple worked as a company not so long ago - iPhone SE, MacBook Air etc). Now we make a step back as society and world - extreme prices for CPUs, GPU cards, smartphones, tablets and computers like in early 90s or 80s where computers cost astronomic quotes. This is a regression.
Radiation strength rapidly decreases with distance, which makes it reasonable to consider radiation emitted very close to your body.
Most likely, though it has been shown that it can heat up internal tissue. Whether that itself leads to problems cannot be 100% excluded. Heat in the brain can cause things like a heat stroke.
My point is merely that we cannot say with absolute certainly that there is zero effect for prolonged exposure, even if the effect isn't worse than a slight headache.
Use a plastic body, problem solved. Like the iPhone 3G which felt and looked premium. I don't get this trend - make phones of metal to look nice, but have problems with signal and wireless charging, so make back of glass - but it's fragile - counter argument that most will put them in a case to protect the pretty glass and metal... But it's in a case, hiding the pretty materials... Just use nice plastic, all problems solved.
It doesn't really make sense to release it at this point since it's hardly even available yet. Apple will release when it makes sense to support 5G. For now, LTE is very fast and often exceeds WiFI performance for me in most scenarios.
Cell phones have been around for a few years now, including cell phones with WiFi which operates in the microwave frequency range.
So far so good. No reason to suspect that things will change just because the protocol is changing.
mobile providers may be more than interested in 5G beyond mobile devices. Verizon is now actively wiring my area with "5g Home". They are offing a residential modem for your home internet needs. All the infrastructure driving 5g home will be comparable with mobile devices. This has never happened before and is a new market.
EVERYONE will want the 5g. Anything less will look like a 2G flip phone.
EVERYONE will want the 5g. Anything less will look like a 2G flip phone.