2:00PM “In some cities which are dense — NYC and SF — it’ll equal five to 10 years of labor for one in every of us. He just *promised* that quality would improve in both Ny city and San Francisco.
1:59PM Ralph: “Once we overlay our network to their network, it improves the standard and capacity for both customer bases.”
1:58PM Ralph: “We’re seeing spectrum usage that we’ve never seen before. It used to take two years to eat up 10MHz of spectrum, and now it takes around a year. Things aren’t being driven by voice, but by data.”
1:58PM Walt’s getting right to it: “Why’s it good for consumers if AT&T swallows up T-Mobile?”
1:57PM Again, the battery adapter should cost between $30 and $50, while the charge station will cost around $100 to $150 (consumer) and industrial ($300 to $500). They’re now begging for venture capital, and we’re guessing they’ll have a couple of phone calls… right… about… now.
1:56PM There’ll be two models of the uBeam system: industrial model, meant for multi-person usage, and the buyer model. Coffee shops, bookstores and classrooms will use the previous, so that you could technically sit in a Starbucks all day (read: not recommended) and feature your devices recharged wirelesly. It’s unclear in case your laptop will be included, though — that’s some pretty heavy power draw.
1:52PM In other words, in case your charging puck is “to your pocket, it probably won’t charge,” because it really must be out within the open to receive the signals. There’s your catch, we suppose. But hey, baby steps! Wireless power has some distance to move, but a minimum of we’re talking about it being a reality in place of a pipe dream.
1:52PM Ah, we’re told that the waves couldn’t transmit “through a human,” so the optical place for the transmitter will be in a ceiling.
1:51PM uBeam’s giving us a quick pitch on how the tech works — effectively, there’s vibrations of transducers that generate electrical currents and may be beamed over the air. Yeah, we’ve heard of wireless power before, but these guys actually expect to ship a product by the year’s end. They usually just graduated from uPenn, and couldn’t tell a lie in the event that they tried.
1:49PM In regards to the size of a flash drive, uses ultrasound technology to transfer power (i.e. totally safe for humans and pets alike), and the present model takes around 3.3 hours to charge the “battery puck” that we mentioned on our earlier coverage.
1:48PM Ah, Walt just pulled a quick one — we’ll must wait a couple of minutes on Ralph, as uBeam (a startup we covered here on Day 1) is taking the stage to (re)blow their own horns its wireless power demo.
1:45PM Things are running just a little behind, so now we’re reading about Google email hacks in China.
1:42PM Pixeled individuals are watching over us. And yeah, AT&T service seems great in here.
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1:41PM What the hey? We’ll read along, too. “Microsoft to restrict tablets” says the headline. Probably an effective read, if not a marginally controversial. The fine print’s somewhat… fine, though.
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And we’re in! Some guy’s reading a newspaper about tablets. A newspaper.
And we’re in! Some guy’s reading a newspaper about tablets. A newspaper.
2 Are you able to handle another? Seriously? We’re planted here in SoCal for the general day of D9 , and we’ve a different liveblog comin’ your way. This go ’round, it’s AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, and while we’ve no evidence whatsoever that it’s going to be observed, we’re guessing the proposed (and highly conversed) T-Mobile USA merger may be the primary topic of debate. Join us after the break for the blow by blow, won’t you?
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