Sony's "TransferJet" to take on Bluetooth 3.0

[Daniel ~]

Written by Daniel
Monday, 07 January 2008

Sony's "TransferJet" to take on Bluetooth 3.0

By Nate Anderson | Published: January 07, 2008 - 01:32PM CT
ARS Technica

LAS VEGAS—Never one to settle for an open standard when the opportunity to push a proprietary alternative presents itself, Sony has announced that it will wade into the next-generation short-range interconnect wars with a proprietary new wireless spec called "TransferJet." Sony's proposed TransferJet spec has a physical peak transmission rate of 560Mbps... Front Page

[Gizmo]

I'm a bit confused.........Sony thinks we need this why?

[Daniel ~]

Because sony needs us to? ":O}

[Pitch]

Because Sony can't go a year without trying to push a proprietary standard.

[noob]

3cm apart, if you are to lazy to plug in a device when it needs to be that close, you are to lazy to use the device.

They didn't get the idea with the minidisc player, atrac3, and others, why should they now?

[Áedán]

I'm not sure how it's a competitor for Bluetooth? 0.03m range verses 10m range?

It does, however, mean that the two devices have to be right next to each other - this makes it very difficult for someone else to send data (as has happened with things like Bluejacking) or to intercept the data. Bluetooth doesn't provide this level of protection.

It also means lower power, as you're only having to inductively couple over a short distance, rather than broadcasting over a wide area.

[noob]

Maybe of they had 0.5-1m range, and it also distributed power similar to USB, it could be a competitor to wireless USB?

It would be nice to have something that I wouldn't need wires and just dump on the desk beside me, or even under in my bag still. But 3cm is just far too close.