The plan is to produce a mobile first, because we know we can fit everything in the form factor today. The radio design presently looks a lot like USRP with a multi-band receiver front-end and transmitter, a speaker amplifier and microphone preamp, a Linux system as the built-in "host" and application platform, and a touch-screen as the user interface.
There will be two versions of the system and its software.The commercial version will be FCC certified for its bands, will be closed-source, and will use cryptographic locks to assure the integrity of the software.
The amateur version will be open platform, and will be hard-coded to lock out some receiver frequencies in order to comply with the US FCC requirements for commercially-produced Amateur equipment (which come from ECPA 1986).
The system will be capable of operating spread-spectrum or narrow-band. There will be no hard-coded modulations, packet formats, codecs, etc.
It's my opinion that this is the only serious radio architecture for the near future. We're at the point that it's becoming less expensive to produce SDR than conventional radio. Smartphones show where we should be as far as user interface and applications.
Thanks
Bruce
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