On Friday 06 July 2007 18:04, Ian Stirling wrote: > Juan Cañete wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > i've just find out this amazing project, and one thing i wonder is if > > there should be posible (or maybe openmoko is thinking already about > > this) to design a mobile phone with the necesary hardware to run > > gnuradio. with that kind of architecture we could access all the rf > > spectrum so we could have a really evil machine... :P > > While in principle possible, you do realise that digital radio takes > several to many thousand times the power that a special purpose radio > takes? > > For example, you can get FM stereo receivers that will work off 1.8V at > a milliamp or two.
And that's before we even get onto the legal issues. SDR with user modifiable software, especially on the transmit side, is a nonstarter given the regulation of radio devices in many (most?) jurisdictions. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community