okia’s Explore and Share concept uses high-speed wireless mystery

The Nokia Research Center has a different technology that gives us a teasing look at one of our many possible futures mobile computing.

Alleged Explore and share concept begins by placing an N900 on a “author” that is tied to a PC in a store. At that point, the PC recognizes the handset and offers a number of options to the buyer. For the purposes of the demo, an anonymous Finn select an album downloads to the handset in less than 10 seconds.

Less than 10 seconds, wireless! If we assume that the 18-track Bruce Springsteen album is somewhere between 100MB and 200MB then we look at a 10Mbps transfer rate up to 20Mbps. Nokia does not give in to what it is to use technology, referring to it only as “a new radio technology. “It is certainly not the NFC tops at 424kbps or Bluetooth 3.0 + GS that tops at 3Mbps. It negotiates much faster than WiFi (although that could just editing deception). It is closer to real-world wireless USB data rates around 15Mbps or 375Mbps’s TransferJet effective throughput. Or as a long shot maybe Bluetooth 4.0 which targets 60Mbps (theoretical) transfer speeds. Regardless, it’s fast so we have to agree with Nokia as the dead pans: “Sounds good. Does not. It. “Check out the action after the break