When the market is willing to pay a monthly fee for one. So likely never.
Who actually said anything about GPS???? 5G is GPS...
Why you need a GPS?
Who actually said anything about GPS?
But, as you did ask....
aGPS isn't GPS. It's triangulation devices use, utilizing cell towers. Get into a rural area where cell tower density is considerably less - your self-driving car might head into the field only utilizing aGPS.
And, that isn't new for 5G - it's been around for almost 20 years?
Edit: Ah...maybe it's the fact that some of the 5G spectrum in the US will cause interference with GPS?
FCC approves 5G network despite military saying it will harm GPS [Updated]
Pai says power limits and guard band will prevent interference with GPS.arstechnica.com
I'm sure AT&T is already gearing up for their $10/month AirTag plan... (just "$2.99" a month, plus $4 admin fee and $3 regulatory fee)When the market is willing to pay a monthly fee for one. So likely never.
ThisI'm sure AT&T is already gearing up for their $10/month AirTag plan... (just "$2.99" a month, plus $4 admin fee and $3 regulatory fee)
I think some of the new 5g frequencies can use little more than Bluetooth power. If the AirtagPro TM ? only pings every minute or so power consumption will be minimal.Very likely never. Because power consumption.
haha very well said!When the market is willing to pay a monthly fee for one. So likely never.
Correction...Will we see an AirTag 5G by around 2030s?
Not sure why you included 7 decimal places? (it does show that you didn't use 365 days in your calculation though - guess you did something with the 52 weeks?)Correction...
Correction...
AirTag 6G as it will come out early 2030s when 6G networks will start to roll out.
Today we have prepaids with 30GB 5G data that expires after 52 weeks for the equivalent of $5.23 every year.
This would be 57.0776256 kilobytes per minute for 30GB/year of 5G data.
I googled the actual 1 year to minutes and copy pasted the KB per minute rate. Hence the decimal places.Not sure why you included 7 decimal places? (it does show that you didn't use 365 days in your calculation though - guess you did something with the 52 weeks?)
btw - that article on 6G is awful. Terrible amount of assumptions and generalizations. Of course the same companies that have developed cellular tech will be developing future cellular tech. Of course the tech hungry countries will adopt it first.
A future AirTag would almost certainly not be using anything in the Terahertz range. One thing that people seem to forget (or misunderstand) is that these high frequencies cost a considerable amount of energy and have very short ranges (there's a reason that lower frequencies are used in rural areas - they carry much further).
Barring an order of magnitude evolution in battery tech, you're not going to be able to fit that kind of capacity into a CR2032-like form factor.
By the 2030s 2G & 3G networks have hopefully been decomissioned by more than 80% of all countries allowing their frequencies to be used by 6G & future network standards.
Heh. Did they finally sunset CDMA in the US? I wouldn't hold your breath on all of the antiquated cell gear being displaced in time.
My point on the article was - why bother to publish something full of assumptions? (by that token, why not publish 7G and 8G articles now - they'll be filled with a similar amount of fluff).
That's what LTE was (Long Term Evolution) - when the technologies finally merged. There are elements of the CDMA protocol in the future revisions of the merged roadmap.Doesnt CDMA expand to 5G? 2G and 3G are being shutdown. By 2030s I can see that happen in places like the US.
2G shutdown: When and where is it happening — Olivia
We’ve made an overview with public information about the timelines of decommissioning 2G networks. Please keep in mind that this is ever changing and we can’t be certain about the correctness of the information.www.oliviawireless.com
That's what LTE was (Long Term Evolution) - when the technologies finally merged. There are elements of the CDMA protocol in the future revisions of the merged roadmap.
Yep, you will certainly have inclusion of the lower frequency bands in future protocols - but you have to think of the practicality / utility of where you use it.
You also have to wonder how much R&D $ is Apple going to put into an "accessory" product that goes for about $40.