Nexus One 802.11N

icebike

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Its rumored that the Nexus One may have its 802.11N radio turned on in FroYo.
(Its the same radio, its just that Android 2.1 never turned on the N mode (or the FM).

The radio specs are here:
Broadcom.com - BCM4329 - Low-Power 802.11n with Bluetooth? 2.1 + EDR and FM (Tx and Rx)

The interesting point here is that the Radio does both 2.5 and 5GHZ 802.11N.

The new iPhone 4, according to Apple's on specs will only use 2.5Ghz, which puts it right in the noise, and unlikely to achieve much of a speed boost at all.

Over on TUAW they have just come to the conclusion that "This makes "802.11n" partly just a marketing bullet point for iPhone 4 instead of a truly beneficial feature. If you're currently running a 5GHz-only N network, your iPhone won't take advantage."

So it remains to be seen if the N1 will gain all the goodness of the BCM4329.

Of course, you are unlikely to do much data transfer to the N1 that requires 802.11N, other than sync your music over the WiFi. Web access will not benefit since your network connection is slower than 802.11b/g.
 

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This was posted here on the front page news shortly after the Froyo pre-release build was sent OTA to select people. It appears, in this pre-release build, that only 2.4Ghz N was enabled. Let's hope they enable 5Ghz by final GM release. I doubt it though.

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here's the story: http://www.androidcentral.com/froyo-feature-80211n-support

According to this post, the Broadcom chip only supports N on 2.4Ghz.
 
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