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Yesterday, at Intel’s IDF, the “SuperSpeed” USB promotions group was announced. Their aim is to finalize the new USB 3.0 specification that will be taking peripheral devices and data sync-ing well into the next decade.
The USB 3.0 spec will be backwards-compatible with the USB 2.0 protocol that is in use today (which makes sense, seeing as how USB 2.0 is widely backwards-compatible with USB 1.0) – and is expected to be finalized by 2008.
USB 3.0 should redefine “high-speed” wired communications by the end of 2009, with mass-deployment by 2010. Where USB 2.0′s “high-speed” data transfer maxes out at 480 Mbps (megabits per second), USB 3.0′s “high-speed” transfer will top out at 4.8Gbps (GIGAbits per second!). We’re down with making USB faster, but what’s up with wireless solutions? Ultra-WideBand (UWB) anyone?
[Via: Electrogeek]
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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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