Although it may seem that the technology market innovates little, it does so at a very slow speed, the truth is that innovations appear every so often and whether we know them en masse or not depends on their success, on their reception. This is the case of LiFi, a ‘WiFi through visible light’ that has been in development for a long time, with its perfectly defined standards, and that is now on the market commercially on board a tablet.
It does so from the hand of Oledcomm, a company that has been carrying out different developments in the field of LiFi for almost a decade and that in 2013 already wanted to have devices with native LiFi in circulation. The system has finally arrived in 2021 on board a tablet created by the company and becomes the first tablet of its kind, carrying Android and with the new visible light communications system.
The LiFiMaxTab is now official
This is what Oledcomm has called his new creation, his first Android tablet with native LiFi. The LiFiMaxTab comes powered by the MediaTek MTK6762 with eight cores at 2GHz and with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal space. We are talking about a tablet with an economic profile in power but medium in price, with 400 euros already announced for February of this 2022.
Oledcomm says that we are facing a tablet with a 10-inch FullHD + screen with a 16:10 ratio and 1,920 x 1,200 pixels and that it has two cameras, a 2-megapixel front and a 5-megapixel rear. The battery is 8,000 mAh for normal use and, beware, an additional 6,000 mAh for LiFi.
In addition to all this we have a tablet with Android 10 that carries two stereo speakers of 1W of power and that has a silicone casing in blue that makes the tablet shock resistant. And since we talk about connectivity, it not only has LiFi but also a USB Type-C port, a dual SIM card tray and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack.
But when it comes to LiFi, the Oledcomm LiFiMaxTab promises to be able to perform downloads of up to 110Mbps and uploads of up to 100Mbps, with the excess energy already known to use this connectivity (hence the additional battery). Undoubtedly an achievement for a company that already began to launch LiFi accessories in 2018 and that has culminated its career (for now) with the arrival of the first tablet with native LiFi on the market.