{"id":548957,"date":"2006-05-29T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548957-latest-laptops-boost-mobile-connectivity.html"},"modified":"2006-05-29T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T07:17:09","slug":"latest-laptops-boost-mobile-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548957-latest-laptops-boost-mobile-connectivity.html","title":{"rendered":"Latest laptops boost mobile connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Centrino platform includes a PentiumM processor, chipset and WiFi wireless card and manufactures build laptops around these, says Danie Steyn, business development manager at Intel. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe combination of these three components provides better performance and increased battery life for the best possible wireless experience.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Steyn says the latest advance in this technology resulted in the release of the Centrino-Duo in January, which provides two processors in one package, is smaller and faster, and consumes less battery power than Intel\u2019s previous mobile platform. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He says in recent tests the Intel Centrino Duo performed up to 70% faster and consumed 28% less battery power compared with the previous generation Pentium laptops, and the components take up 30% less space. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Centrino laptop models support the 802.11 wireless standard, which provides speeds of up to 54mbps shared by the number of users connecting to a single wireless local area network (LAN) access point in an office environment or at a WiFi hotspot. The next version of Centrino, to be released next January, will incorporate the 802.11n wireless standard, which operates at 300mbps, says Steyn. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Manufacturers are also starting to integrate EDGE and 3G capabilities into their laptop models and provide a slot for a SIM so that users can connect to these services without having to purchase a separate data card. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Steyn says during the second half of this year users will be able to purchase data cards that support the new WiMAX wireless standard, which provides speeds of multiple megabits per second over distances of 50km. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAt the beginning of 2008, Intel will be incorporating dual WiFi and WiMAX capabilities in a single chip so that users can roam between the two technologies.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He says this will do for WiMAX what the earlier versions of Centrino have done to stimulate the take-up of WiFi. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In the future, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cellphone handsets will incorporate WiMAX capabilities to support fast data connectivity and allow users to have voice calls forwarded to them over the internet,\u201d Steyn says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRELESS communication take-up is being boosted by Intel\u2019s development of the Centrino mobile technology platform that suppliers are incorporating in their laptop products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}