TransferJet: short distance transmissions faster then Bluetooth

TransferJet: short distance transmissions faster then Bluetooth

Bluetooth has many advantages: it’s easy to use, works with almost any device, consumes less power, but has the transfer rate lower than USB 1.0, which makes it useless for multiple file transfers and other large files. For transferring data at high speeds with no wires there’s TransferJet introduced by Sony for the first time in 2008. Now they and Toshiba said are going to mass produce gadgets using this short distance transmission protocol, which allows speed of up to 560 Mbps (at physical layer. Throughput is 375 Mbps), faster than USB 2.0.

There’s a problem here too: both devices have to be really close: 3 cm, which is a lot less than the 10 meters allowed by Bluetooth, but what you loose in distance you gain in transfer speed and there are a lot of applications which can take advantage of TransferJet (wiki link). Imagine you just took a lot of pictures and want to transfer them fast to a laptop: just bring those too in proximity and start downloading. You don’t need to carry cables or a card reader. Same goes for camcorder transfers, music library sync and so on. So proximity is not a problem in those cases, it’s even an advantage as it protects data theft as no one can hack your device without stealing it.

Short TransferJet diagram