• edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      I think they meant the phone is beaming the horrific news to their face which is inches away, not that the horrific news is beamed directly to their phone

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      But underneath it’s just unicast to your phone, no?

      But anyway, beamed directly it may be, it’s called beamforming.

      In the world of 5G, this is the act of focusing a wireless signal in a specific direction. Compared to simply sending a signal across a wide area, beamforming requires more sophisticated antenna technology.
      […] Beamforming technology, on the other hand, sends a precise and concentrated signal right to your smartphone. It is more deliberate and intentional with its delivery method.