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Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now (newatlas.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seems really light on details. I couldn't find anything searching around and find these numbers hard to believe. I feel like it'll be something like you can have 60% lower power OR this other claim but not all the claims at the same time.

Smells like marketing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It depends on the bandwidth. And since it's digital transfer, some things can be changed, we're not talking directly about the analogic bandwidth/range ratio.

I've not read the article but the exchange protocol can be to blame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's probably just BS.