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On Wednesday 14 April 2004 13:33, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> Handheld callular phones have *never* put out 3 watts; the FCC didn't
> permit it... not that you could have gotten more than, say, 48 seconds
> of battery life at that power level, anyway.

well,well, you say so ...

>
> Mobile and bag style AMPS phones would do 3 watts, yes, but
> they're about to go obsolete (to the dismay of offshore boaters, among
> other people); handheld AMPS phones (like the Dynatac brick) would do
> 600mW (again, by regulatory fiat), smaller ones might not have even
> gotten that high.

AMPS phones are limited to 600mW output

>
> Current digital TDMA handhelds top out at, I think, 300mW, and
> CDMA's typically only run 200.   iDen, I don't recall, but being
> pulsed, the effects are probably slightly different, anyway.

TDMS/CDMA phones do up to 3W while doing electronic handshaking, newer models 
may do 2W, CDMAs average to 250mW power while talking


>
> Gee.  200mW.  What a familiar number.  :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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