Speed is good. More speed is better. Tru VoIP App users in particular look to benefit from Broadcom‘s 802.11ac (also popularly known as 5G Wi-Fi) chips, and now the chip maker is looking to bring its high-speed magic to smartphones.
Broadcom is looking at the advent of online video usage on multiple screens in the home, which consumes an extremely large amount of bandwidth that can cause lower quality video and may even prevent additional connections such as Tru VoIP. Broadcom believes that the gigabit Wi-Fi speeds that 802.11ac will provide is a way to combat that.
The BCM 4335 chipset that Broadcom is announcing today includes 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and FM radio all on one chip. The company claims that it’ll be about three times faster than existing Wi-Fi networks, and six times more power-efficient than existing 802.11n connections.
With the routers already available that help make these speeds possible, the company expects the smartphones, tablets, and ultrabooks that will be running the chips to hit the market as early as 2013, just in time for the revamped Tru VoIP app to be released on BlackBerry 10, iOS, Android and maybe even Windows Phone.