One other hope I have is that the RF chip designers will start making more flexible radios. Does a GSM/wifi/bluetooth/GPS phone really need 4 different RF chips and associated antennas and cabling? Using software-radio techniques it might be possible to combine some of the hardware.
GPS 1.5 Ghz WIFI 2.4 Ghz Bluetooth 2.4 Ghz GSM-L 850 Mhz (to 900 Mhz) GSM-H 1.8 Ghz (to 1.9Ghz) Except for the GSM low band, all the frequencies are relatively close to one another, certainly within a power of two of each other. Even with the GSM low band, it is still within a factor of 3. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
