Toshiba will bring Sony’s TransferJet technologies to its product range within the latter half of the year.
The organization these days demo’d the near-field communications technology these days, utilizing it to transfer pictures taken on a specially modified TG01 Windows Mobile Smartphone to some similarly prototypical Qosmio laptop.
TransferJet was developed by Sony and made available to other producers via an industry consortium. It specifies a data throughput rate of up to 560Mb/s, though in the real world you’ll see speeds of around 370Mb/s, Toshiba officials said. Not quite USB 2.0, but still way above Bluetooth.
The catch: NFC requires the two devices to be no more than 30mm apart and, ideally, touching.
Alas, Toshiba’s people refused to become drawn on what items TransferJet will initially be added to, or what kind of cost premium the NFC technologies will command. However, they did say it’s most likely to become added to a couple of models at first, before becoming rolled out much more broadly in due course.
Demo’d as it was by Toshiba UK’s laptop team, TransferJet will nearly certainly appear on notebooks first.
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