Single-Chip GSM Phone on Virtual Horizon?

An anonymous reader writes "There's still the alphabet soup and corporate conflicts regarding cell phone standards in the U.S. but... there might be some hope for a single-chip GSM phone, which might open up some interesting possibilities."

Re:background info question

[jetmarc]

You can take a peek into the insides of GSM phones here:

http://www.inside-gsm.com/inside-gsm_home.html

A fairly new model is the Ericsson T68 (comes with color LCD):

http://www.inside-gsm.com/Ericsson/T68/Inside_T6 8/ inside_t68.html

jetmarc