New tech

[anticpated]

So now that almost everyone has caught up with technology. The eggheads have new tech to try and persuade us to spend more cash.

5G is coming to a mobile platform sooner or later. Much of the development happening in China with Huawei being very much involved with the 5g modems.

Foldable phones with spread out to be tablet like devices. Almost all big manufacturers are working on their versions.

There is rumours that Android development may incur an extra upgrade fee or at least manufacture will won't be so quick to update every device to the latest platform.

Which is a bit silly as these often include security patches to prevent data loss and exploits.

In other news, I can't sleep.

[Anonymous]

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5G is certainly going to be interesting and useful provided it isn't overhyped.

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The hype has already begun 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46127712

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@Anonymous

Yeah, right.

That claim will come back to haunt them I think on the basis that service quality is dictated by a large number of variables and in case of mobile networks quite a few are beyond operator control such as mast distance from the user and of course, our beautiful weather

[anticpated]

Wireless has its limits such as attenuation in the broadcast signal caused by random events such as weather, tempature and available bandwidth on the device and cell tower. I'm not sure I would want my services all tied into one network, especially if you run a home network or VPN if you work from home for example.

Of course, all this rhetorical and based on scenarios that may not exist for every user. I know for sure, you should never put your eggs in one basket. Which is why Virginmedia running everything through the one connection is a pain. 

[Anonymous]

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@anticpated wrote:

Wireless has its limits such as attenuation in the broadcast signal caused by random events such as weather, tempature and available bandwidth on the device and cell tower. I'm not sure I would want my services all tied into one network, especially if you run a home network or VPN if you work from home for example.

Of course, all this rhetorical and based on scenarios that may not exist for every user. I know for sure, you should never put your eggs in one basket. Which is why Virginmedia running everything through the one connection is a pain. 

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@anticpated

Unified Communication is the buzzphrase here.

BT are putting voice and data traffic onto one IP network core which is what the mobile standards are now doing and of course Virgin Media which is now favouring Fibre all the way to the premises over it's Hybrid Fibre Coax when expanding it's network.

Less cabling and less equipment (and associated housing, power and cooling),

Where I work we switched to IP phones some years back with PCs, servers and IP devices all sharing the same network, the only exception are emergency phones in lifts that are still analogue.