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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

So basically like a compromise between wifi & bluetooth?

The thing is, people using bluetooth is not looking for raw performance. When they more performance, they'd go with wifi. Wifi data transfer is a thing.

Last but not least, it's Huawei...

Edit: Regardless of the privacy & security stuff, Huawei is known for coming up with a bunch of empty gimmicks (see: Harmony OS).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would certainly love Bluetooth to be higher bandwidth, for things like high-fidelity audio.

Currently Bluetooth pairing usually works quite well on almost all devices. Conversely, wifi-based pairing is mostly a disaster. So much that even respected brands can't get it right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I sometimes control a high end camera through my phone. For basic controls it connects via Bluetooth but if you want live-shooting (you see what's being captured on the phone) it switches to WiFi. It's ALWAYS a massive pain in the ass, takes forever to connect, disconnects if the phone screen is off even just a few seconds, etc etc.

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