The day when iPhone 7 hits the market this year could signal the death of the Wi-Fi technology. This possibility emerged after leaked information points to Apple's purported development of super fast Li-Fi technology for its new smartphone.
The leak came from a Twitter post by user @kyoufujibaya, which included an image that show an iOS 9.1 firmware code for the iPhone 7 that indicates Li-Fi support. This new data transmission technology is considered a game-changer because it could perform 100 times faster than Wi-Fi, capable of speeds that reach 224 GB per second.
Li-Fi testing is already imminent. May appear in the next iPhone 7 according to iOS code in iOS 9.1 firmware. pic.twitter.com/MPK65QwLvp
— Chase Fromm(チェイスフロム) (@kyoufujibaya) December 31, 2015
The Li-Fi technology was invented by Scottish scientist Harald Haas in 2011 and was earlier reported being tested in industrial environments in Estonia by a company called Velmenni. It is not yet known whether Apple's own Li-Fi technology is the same. If so, it is an ambitious upgrade, as the technology boasts of a groundbreaking data transmission process. Unlike Wi-Fi with signals travelling through walls, Li-Fi emits signals from a light bulb, which flickers at speed indiscernible to human eye, as HNGN previously reported.
If the Li-Fi technology is, indeed, being implemented for the iPhone 7, fans would be in for a truly advanced device. There is also a rumor that indicates how the latest iPhone would be super thin, requiring the elimination of the headphone jack, according to 9 to 5 Mac.
