“News that Samsung’s Galaxy S4 smarthphone (expected to launch this month) may support 802.11ac, also known as ’5G Wi-Fi’, has lead to speculation that Apple’s next iPhone could support standard as well,” Macworld Australia reports.
“Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang has said that new connectivity chips from Broadcom (BRCM) are expected to be used in the Samsung’s Galaxy S4, and that Apple is also believed to be in talks with Broadcom about new chips for its iPhone 6, as well as the rumoured low-cost iPhone,” Macworld Australia reports. “”
Macworld Australia reports, “Broadcom unveiled its 5G Wi-Fi chips last year, which use a standard known as IEEE 802.11ac. The company boasts that ‘5G WiFi is the next generation Wi-Fi standard required for today’s mobile and video era and is three times faster and six times more power efficient than previous generation 802.11an devices.'”
Read more in the full article here.
I can now reveal few exclusive sensations: Apple will use 6G Wi-Fi chip in few years!
iPhone from 2016 will have much faster SoC, and will have more memory!!
Macworld Australia, make an article of it! Quick!
Yeah it’s sort of like those incredibly boring post-sports interviews where the same things are said over and over to stultifying and yawning effect. “Yeah we really picked up our game this year and came together as a team blah blah blah…”
Apple has generally had large leed when it comes to wireless technology and will almost always move to a new technology if it conserves power.
I’d be very surprised if Apple didn’t move to the new Broadcom chip.
Samsung is really trying to become the leader. The competition is great for us consumers, no matter WHAT you think of Samsung.
As far as competition Walt Disney had a great observation: “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.” All companies need the competition to stimulate and motivate, including Apple though I think Apple self-motivates more than most.
Yup. Samsung is making it increasingly difficult for Apple to be the first on the block to have something. The biggest mistake I have seen Apple make is being behind the curve by not having a larger phone. If this were not true we wouldn’t be looking forward to the larger iPhone. I can’t believe that they couldn’t see that a larger form factor phone would be a hit before Samsung. The day it comes out it will be an instant hit. Putting to rest the arguments from the handful of naysayers (and guys with small hands) on this site. But I have faith that Apple will pull something out of the hat soon. Something that Samsung won’t see coming. And I’m not talking about the Apple ITV. But I still think it’s coming also.
A larger phone is not ideal. The iPhone is perfectly sized and the bigger phones are just a silly fad. I think the iPhone 5 is just the right size. It still fits neatly in a pocket and feels right when you hold it as opposed to holding a waffle with one hand.
A larger phone is ideal. Larger phones are not a silly fad. I realize your hands are probably small so you would have a problem with a 5 inch phone. But talk to me in a year. The larger iPhone will be outselling the smaller iPhone 5 three to one. Hopefully they will continue to make the current iPhone five form factor for people like you with small hands.
There was also that keyboard thing for the iPhone that Apple never did bring to market.
All this speculation about the next phone(s) is nothing but a blatant admission from Cook & Co. that they completely failed with a hopeless strategy of dealing with the competition. Now they come along – impossibly late to the game – with a “fix” that won’t move AAPL into higher territory. In fact, it may move it backwards since it will be an acknowledgment that Apple’s competitors are now in control.
*sigh* All the world loves a know-it-all ‘expert’. (Rolls eyes).
And our buddy Pee Pee is an ex-spurt.
ppeterson,
What competition?
Apple continues to dominate.
What fix?
I see no fix.
What higher territory?
Apple is on top. Unless you are counting all the bottom feeders with cheap, multi OS laden Android phones.
How are Apple competitors in control?
They control the bottom. Apple stays on top.
ppeterson – you swallowed the red pill, your reality is distorted
Another troll. Another brainless idiot who enjoys making others miserable because they themselves are intensely miserable. Enjoy your ignorant misery ppeterson, troll.
I would greatly appreciate a dial up option in Apple’s next iPhone. I mean, you already have the phone just siting there, right? How hard could it be to connect like a Global Village 33k modem to it with like, a piece of wire or something. I know connection speeds have greatly increased lately (I’m hearing 56k from my sources). but 33k is so reliable and a proven technology.
Just sayin’
I think it would depend on how much that chips affects battery life, remember they didnt go to 4G right away as they were too power hungry. (first generation 4G chips).
Exactly what Lawrence said. Samsung will build an enormous and ugly phone to hold the battery required to power this first generation 5G WiFi chip – and it will be buggy and be useful almost nowhere. When Apple rolls it out, it will actually work, and people will build to the “Apple standard”. The market power wielded by Apple in these cases is something to behold.
“Led” not “lead”
WITHOUT a DOUBT Apple is on its GAME…
seeking out all new technologies and innovating
on those technologies.
AFTER ALL – do you not think THATS how APPLE got where it HAS? These articles are starting to get STUPID.
“Starting” to get stupid? You just noticed?
I always check out this website for iPhone alternatives – http://www.microsoftapple.com – My personal favourite is the Nokia Lumia because of the camera and speed of the operating system.
The use of the term 5G is going to confuse the hell out of most people. They’re going to think this has something/anything to do with the 4G mobile phone communications standard, just like they couldn’t comprehend that the current use of the term 4G is merely a bogus marketing-moron ploy for selling pre-actual 4G technology, which won’t be arriving on the market until the end of 2013.
IOW: One giant ball of confusion that only we-the-geeks comprehend. I’m gonna hate explaining this mess to the newbies. Sigh. 🙁
Such a load to carry. You really are special.