It will not. The lag is at Aple's end in their server room. The data must go over the cell network to Apple, then back over the cell network to your car. The Siri response is done inside Apple's data center.
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FCC Says Apple Can Use Faster 6GHz Spectrum for Headsets, CarPlay, and More
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But will it activate the 5G chips in the vaccine?! You’re suspiciously quiet on THAT! 🤨🧐 /S
I thought the phone does the heavy lifting on voice recognition now. Why would it need to contact any server to play a song in your library or get directions? It uses that to process your commands but aren’t most CarPlay requests really basic?
EDIT: Nevermind, Apple clears this up here (see photo)
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You mean no studies that you know about. There are many, going back to the mid 1900s.
The way non-ionizing radio damages tissue is by heating it. Pretty much like a microwave oven. But if the radio signal is below a certain level the tissue is not heated because blood flow carries the heat away and the body dumps it to the environment like it does any other heat. When the radiation level is above some level then there is not enough blood flow to carry the heat away. Different body parts have different amounts of blood flow. For example, the eyes have the least amount and are a very susceptible place.
This is been studied to death, you can buy textbooks on this and take engineering classes that cover it.
If you want to read some modern studies in a free and open-access book look at this https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60169?show=full
Look around and you find dozens of collections like this.
Nope, that must be the outside connection causing the delay.
(servers) <--> cellular <--> phone <--> 6 GHz (proposed) <--> car system
When you talk to your car system, it talks instantly to your phone, but then your phone must reach out to the remote servers over your cellular network, and that's likely where the delay is being introduced.
Do you not notice the exact same lag when asking your phone directly?
It's usually (1) the military, (2) hospital/medical systems, (3) aircraft operations, and (4) big spectrum license holders that demand deep study and review of new or different radio spectrum use. Even if they don't want or worry about that exact spectrum today, these four groups want to put forward the argument that they'll need it next year. And the dirty members of congress know that they'll get a fat donation if they support incessant study.
Airtags or any other tracker device that operates on 6 GHz would be a total loser in terms of battery life and radio range. So definitely not.
I believe I’m talking about a different lag than you two. The Siri lag I mean is after pressing the voice assistant button on the steering wheel—it takes what feels like a few seconds for Siri to event start listening so that I can make my request. After I’m able to start making my request it’s normal/fine.
And the play lag I mean is when I press play either on the car screen or my phone, it takes again what feels like a few seconds for it to start playing (audio via car speakers). And this is even for media stored locally on my phone.
Maybe it’s an issue with my car specifically. Do you guys use wireless CarPlay and not experience this?
Every time I see a picture of this thing strapped to somebody’s head, I become more and more skeptical that anyone is going to wear this for more than a few hours before packing it up and sending it back for a refund. A cool tech demo. Totally ridiculous proposition for long term use.
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How about this huge brick in a pocket made of semi-fragile glass of all things? Do you want thin, fragile glass near your "precious"? It also generates some kind of radiation and they want us to keep it near the "precious" or near our brains every day & night. Like that is ever going to happen.
How about this little television with keyboard attached that they expect people to unfold on their laps? To do work like that they say on this thing they called a laptop. Are they nuts or what? And wait until you see how much they want for this tiny television that doesn't tune any channels at all. It doesn't even have an antenna or cable jack on it.
How about this other television that sits on a desk and requires a user to do lots of work instead of just watch television? They want people to sit in front of it for hours & hours and plunk on typewriter keys. No entertainment. Just work, work, work.
How about this long cylinder made of semi-soft aluminum, with these dual blades protruding left & right, in which hundreds of living people squeeze inside and it then takes them miles above the earth where, if it lost the ability to stay up there, they all would surely perish in a fiery crash? The morons behind this don't seem to understand that what goes up, must come down.
How about this horseless carriage, noisy, bumpy, bouncy in which you have to pour this explosive, highly flammable liquid that will burn you to ash if any gets on you and there's a fire? And they want a whole year's salary to buy one of these crazy contraptions. A WHOLE year! I already own my horse & carriage- no dangerous, flammable liquids involved- and the only fuel old Bessie needs grows for free on my lot.
And then there's these so-called Doctors... who have mixed up various concoctions of chemicals that they want to inject into the sick saying it will heal them. I know what they're doing. They are killing off the sick ones, hiding the bodies and stealing their land & possessions. No chemical- "medicine" they call it- will ever go into this body. All snake oil if I ever saw it.
How about this crackpot magical force that runs through wires to create light without candle wax and fire... but touch it to anything living- even something as big as elephants- and it kills them dead on the spot? Do you want something that deadly attached to your home? You want your children near that death field?
All cool tech demos but also totally ridiculous propositions for long-term use. And there are so many more than only those.
There's been major (& multitudes of) skeptics ahead of every technological hop. Why should it be different this time? I'm so glad the crazy ones pushed on against all that skepticism. Else, I'd by writing this with a feather dipped in some ink on parchment by candlelight... or perhaps carving this in stone if crazy concepts like candles and ink were too far out for the masses who looked at progress and rejected it outright.
And unless you live really close by, you probably have near zero chance of ever seeing the comment, nor me yours... if we even had the ability to read because supporting that nonsense called a printing press is obviously the devils work... or moving a heavy carved rock around could take an eternity... even if you embrace that nutty new contraption they call the wheel.
If God wanted man to fly, he'd given them wings. And don't sail too far out to sea or you'll fall off the ends of the Earth.
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Allowing devices to connect on a new spectrum range (6GHz) instead of adding to an already dense spectrum range would reduce interference, not add to it...
AirTags ping off other Bluetooth enabled devices, so it wouldn’t matter either way since it goes off anything nearby And 6ghz is faster bandwidth at shorter distances in theory.
In a vacuum.EM waves travel at light speed regardless of frequency.
But here you go: https://www.everythingrf.com/community/thread-frequency-ba…
The Government is Broken. Four Years to make a pretty simple decision that effects technology & progress. I wonder how many kick-backs were extracted.
A very simply decision that you can’t undo and could **** up other 6 GHz use cases if gone wrong, lawsuits, etc. But I‘m sure you know better than the people whose job it is to deal with that stuff.
And btw, it’s not like this was urgently needed. They asked in 2019 because they knew it would take some time.
Does anybody know if this is North America only?
It seems Europe only has opened up 5945 - 6425 Mhz. Will we see even more fragmentation?
It seems Europe only has opened up 5945 - 6425 Mhz. Will we see even more fragmentation?