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Apple Watch Series 7 features secret 60.5GHz wireless connection (2021)
- eternityforest 4y ago... really? What does a watch need that much bandwidth for? Can they not just use WiFi? Or is the whole point to keep competitors out?
- zeristor 4y agoIt would seem it’s to remove the need for a port to connect to it. My guess is that this is a scaling up trial for further deployment, but I’ve heard very little on it. This article refers to MacRumors: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/23/apple-watch-60-5-ghz-wireless-data-transfer/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/23/apple-watch-60-5-ghz-wi... Which in turn refers to the FCC filing: https://www.scribd.com/document/527108597/Apple-Watch-Series-7-FCC-Filing https://www.scribd.com/document/527108597/Apple-Watch-Series... This is new tech, and I’d love to learn more about it all.