09-06-2002, 05:00 PM
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Sony and Philips create a new wireless standard...
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-956779.html
"Philips Electronics and Sony announced Thursday that they plan to work together on new wireless technology that will allow consumer devices to "talk" to each other." Oh goodie! Because IR and Bluetooth aren't enough.
So, a bunch of people from Sony and Philips got around a table and said:
� We need something we can get licensing revenue from.
� It need to be very very short range - say, 6 inches.
� Speed isn't important, so 200kbps is fine.
� We need something we can get licensing revenue from.
And Near Field Communication, or NFC was born. "NFC will allow data to be transferred over a wireless spectrum at 13.56MHz. Devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, handhelds or personal computers will be able to "talk" within a range of 20 centimeters and at speeds of up to 212kbps."  Someone just shoot me now. Thanks to Racer-X for the link.
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09-06-2002, 05:07 PM
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Sounds great; except sony (and I really love there stuff) is famous for doing the propietary thing with all of there stuff too. Which technically means that there is a 99% chance that only the sony stuff will be able to talk to each other. They never build anything that works universal. You have to buy their stuff in order for their technology to work. So I won't count on it. :roll: typical of sony!
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09-06-2002, 05:26 PM
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[sarcasm]
Another low bandwidth, short range, proprietary wireless protocol, eh? Sounds great! Where do I sign up?
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09-06-2002, 05:28 PM
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Thinker
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Re: Sony and Philips create a new wireless standard...
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
will be able to "talk" within a range of 20 centimeters and at speeds of up to 212kbps."
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What's the point? 20 cm? That's less than a foot. My PDA is farther away from my laptop when they're sitting on my desk together. And my desktop is on the floor several feet away. They better be giving the chips away, or no one is going to want this.
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09-06-2002, 05:30 PM
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Re: Sony and Philips create a new wireless standard...
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Someone just shoot me now. |
ok :2gunfire:  nfire:
yeah right. that's what the world has been waiting for, another proprietary short range wireless thing.
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09-06-2002, 06:45 PM
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One characteristic that sets NFC apart is that it needs no "permission" before making a connection between devices, he said. Bluetooth, on the other hand, pings a device to see if it wants to connect before going through with the coupling.
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Oh yea, that's what I want. Instant Messages from every vending machine I get within 20cm of.
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09-06-2002, 06:53 PM
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What's next ? PDA's with a 1"x0.5" screen....?...also pretty useless... :?
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09-06-2002, 06:55 PM
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What? I agree with Ed Hansberry for the first time ever?!
No, get up and go to the TV and hold the PDA right next to it?
Maybe if I put the cell phone inside the pop machine shoot?
My watch can communicate with my keyfob car door opener if I put them both in my pocket together?
Open my garage if I stand on a ladder and get right next to the reciever?
There must be a reason Sony wants to do this, but I sure can't guess what it is.
Wait, wait, I could hold my digital camera next to a memory stick and it would automatically take money out of my bank account and put it into Sony's. That must be it.
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09-06-2002, 07:04 PM
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Re: What? I agree with Ed Hansberry for the first time ever?
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Originally Posted by Timothy Rapson
My watch can communicate with my keyfob car door opener if I put them both in my pocket together?
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I'm not sure I want all this stuff talking to each other. They might start talking about me and play tricks. My keyfob decides not to work a few times and my watch is laughing his hands off. Never mind if they replace the IR ports in urinals with this stuff. Then it is talking to my watch. I don't want to know what they'd be talking about. 8O
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09-06-2002, 07:19 PM
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The comments are pretty funny (esp. the urinal talking to your watch, though I try not to stick my watch within 20cm of the urinal, maybe you guys down in Chattanooga do that, eh Ed?).
I think the whole point of this technolgy is to let things like stero components talk to each other wirelessly. That way you can stack your components without dealing with the cable octopus that we have now.
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