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Nokia Siemens Networks CTO says 4G will 1000x faster and much cheaper by 2020
Nokia Siemens Network CTO, Hossein Moiin has come has stated to online sources that he thinks that there will be significant advances in network speeds and pricing by the year 2020. According to him, speeds will be 1000 times faster than they are now and on top of that, it will cost as little as $1 per GB which will be the daily consumption of an average user. The picture he painted about networking will allegedly come to fruition by the year 2020.
To support speeds of that magnitude at an affordable price would mean that radio technology will have to improve drastically but Moiin remains confident that it will be possible with evolution based on a factor of ten. While it is common knowledge that carriers are struggling to handle the unprecedented demand for data currently, Moiin iterates that a very dense network will “increase the absolute cost but reduce the cost per bit” which is just like anything else which gets cheaper as it gets more advanced.
Since the amount of money that needs to be pumped in currently to support wireless networks is in the higher levels, ‘cheaper’ would be something of a godsend. Although Moiin speaks of network speeds a 1000 times faster than they are now, he doesn’t exactly seem even nearly happy by his own prediction as he thinks that it would mean that all the work that has been put in now would have to restart again from scratch and that it will get harder (referencing the intellectual side of things) “but we will have to do it all over again”.
Now here is an interesting leaked render of what is allegedly known as the Nokia C1, which is supposed to be the next smartphone which will feature the Nokia logo – never mind the fact that the Finnish company had already sold its smartphone business to Microsoft some time back. Well, the most interesting aspect about this leaked render would be the fact that it sports an Android operating system on the foreground, while another model hiding behind it looks as though it runs on Windows 10 Mobile.
Does this mean that we will have to face not one, but two variants of the same device? Only time will be able to tell, but for the moment, it will be an agonizing wait until 2016 as that is when the alleged Nokia C1 smartphone will launch then.
So, you happen to be rocking to one of the older Lumia handsets from Nokia, and would love to check out what all the hoo-haa is about concerning Windows 10 Mobile. If you happen to live in Poland, then here is a spot of good news for you to kick start your week – the Windows 10 Mobile update will be heading to the likes of the Lumia 630, 635, 640, 735, and 830 this coming December 14, whereas those who happen to be making use of the Lumia 520, 532, 625, 720, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, and 1320, will have to wait until February 1st next year.
Again, bear in mind that the Windows 10 Mobile update will only affect those smartphones which were purchased from Orange in Poland, so if you happen to own any of the above mentioned devices but from different people, then you would have to give the updates a miss.
A quick look at the calendar shows that we are still in March – early March, in fact, and April is still some ways of. Still, this has not stopped the fact that an alleged leak of a Nokia 1100 has been benchmarked, and in that particular benchmark, it revealed that the Nokia 1100 would sport Android 5.0 Lollipop as the mobile operating system version of choice – how cool would that be if it were to be true?
Other hardware specifications in the alleged leaked benchmark sheet point to a quad-core MT6582 processor which has been clocked at 1.3GHz, a 720p resolution display, and most probably 512MB RAM. We would take this bit of information with more than just a pinch of salt – perhaps and entire tablespoonful.