Mobile devices will get next-gen Wi-Fi in early second half, Qualcomm says

Smartphones and tablets with the emerging Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, 802.11ac, will arrive early in the second half of this year, a Qualcomm executive said.

Mobile devices based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series processors will be the company's first to get 802.11ac Wi-Fi, said Murthy Renduchintala, executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies, ahead of the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona.

The new Wi-Fi standard in Snapdragon will increase peak data transfer rates, but at the same time enable tablets and smartphones to retain battery life similar to mobile devices with 802.11 b/g/n technology, Renduchintala said. The theoretical data transfer rates for 802.11ac is expected to be three to four times faster than that of 802.11n, which are in mobile devices, PCs and routers today.

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