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nackrm writes
"CNN is reporting on the latest from Texas Instruments seen recently at the Cellular Telecommunication and Internet Association (CTIA) conference in New Orleans. They've managed to jam these three techs into one chip. Soon we'll be seeing the techie equivalent of a swiss army knife."
Which ties in quite nicey with... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Thumb a lift (Score:5, Funny)
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You would if you didn't eat your meat.
GNU Radio (Score:3, Interesting)
Planet P Blog [planetp.cc]
Re:GNU Radio (Score:1)
And then you'll have your software determined radio for the masses.
While we're waiting for that to happen in a single chip design so we can put it in a cell phone form factor, we can at least read up on current events and see that TI has, right here and now, made it m
Re:Which ties in quite nicey with... (Score:1)
Another possiblility would be to integrate VoIP capabilites, through the Wi-Fi connectivity. Depending on mobile signal strength, or something like monthly minutes used, calls could be routed automatically to the best alternative.
related blog entry [enterblog.com]
ummmm (Score:2)
Flash Gordon, on the other hand, in his pursuit of evil, could move freely about the Universe (when not imprisoned on Planet Doom), and sported a ray-gun. Me thinks Flash is more the hero we need for tech stuf, not some guy in a trench coat & Fedora that thinks women are a PITA.
Re:Which ties in quite nicey with... (Score:2)
Bluetooth (Score:4, Funny)
Now that I hear this, I think, maybe this is just what the technology needs to become uber prevalent.
HA HA I AM KIDDING !!!!
It will still be a distant 47th to IR connectivity.
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Re:Bluetooth (Score:5, Informative)
And line of site is a pain with IR.
Re:Bluetooth (Score:2, Informative)
the essential difference between bluetooth and IR is that iR own't keep a connection if you don't keep perfectly still.
IR has even failed on me due to my switching on or off my desk lamp...
Re:Bluetooth (Score:2)
I thought bluetooth had went the way of 100base VG, betamax, bernoulli drives, .sea compression, BeOS, 8 track, and SACD.
You haven't been to Europe lately, have you?
Al.Re:Bluetooth (Score:1)
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Did not see it there either. Although bluetooth was the last thing in my mind while living in A'dam.
Still, my powerbook has IR today.
Re:Bluetooth (Score:2)
That's because Bluetooth uses a special invisible ray we call "radio waves". These crazy things are even able to transmit information right through solid objects! Surely the wonders of science will never cease.
Re:Bluetooth (Score:1)
How many devices have IR and how many devices have Bluetooth ? It may change but for now the standard could so easily go the way of Betamax.
Maybe in Germany
Or perhaps you just like Bluetooth because you don't want to believe that you bought a lemon.
Re:Bluetooth (Score:2)
I see people using BT headsets every day on the way to work. Of the 20 people in my office, I'd guess 10-12 have BT enabled phones. I know 2 or 3 people who use BT to connect their PDAs to phones. The laptop I am typing this on (a work machine, not personal) has BT built in. Ericcson put BT in most of their phones now, as do Nokia. I could buy a BT card for my PDA, a USB BT dongle for my PC, etc.
I can only assume you were too busy looking in one kind of window in A'dam to look in any other kind. Mind you,
holy crap! (Score:2, Funny)
Damnit!
Re:Bluetooth (Score:2)
Then I guess I'm weird - I use IR every day and am hoping to switch to bluetooth any time now...
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With bluetooth, I have my phone in my jacket pocket, the headset at hand, PDA around somewhere, and my laptop on my desk. All talking to each other, no muss, no fuss. Alternate work setup #1 puts me in a park (with good GPRS coverage), laptop on lap, phone in jacket pocket, head
sounds fishy to me (Score:5, Funny)
at least (Score:2)
*ducks*
Re:sounds fishy to me (Score:1)
Not one chip! (Score:5, Insightful)
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GPRS, 2.4Ghz interference myth? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:GPRS, 2.4Ghz interference myth? (Score:5, Informative)
802.11/Bluetooth interference is a problem for some wireless chips and not a problem for others; it's not clear why.
Re:GPRS, 2.4Ghz interference myth? (Score:1)
Prediction (Score:2, Insightful)
New product idea! (Score:1)
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I once heard of a girl in Saigon who made $3,000 a day
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Wanda spec sheet [ti.com]
The only thing that'll keep me from getting it would be the underpowered ness of the processor to operating system. Make it efficent and u got a customer here!!
a fish called wanda (Score:2, Funny)
I knew we had fish genes in tomatoes, but now in silicon chips? What else could the codename possibly allude to? (wait...you know the movie right? for those of you who were too young, there's a classic 1988 movie "a fish called wanda" [colossus.net])
Seriously, how are they coming up with those acronyms?
Ok, you can get back to posting intelligent comments, now
Bluetooth and Wifi not playing nicely? (Score:5, Interesting)
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(they make them from aluminium now and the 12 and 17" models have bluetooth built in)
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Re:Bluetooth and Wifi not playing nicely? (Score:2)
You got it right cept no one calls the new ones AuBooks or AlBooks.
Maybe now that AlGore is on the board the name AlBook will take off?
Anywhere access... (Score:5, Insightful)
The idea of "anywhere" access isn't new. Almost every wireless company has included it in their
I think that this card will bring mobile warriors a bit closer to the idea of truly affordable anywhere access.
justen
Why GSM? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Why GSM? (Score:2, Informative)
Exceptions include Japan, South Korea and the US.
Pretty much everyone else uses GSM.
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In this case GPRS is also included within the GSM definition.
Re:Why GSM? (Score:2, Informative)
Interference? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Power requirements... (Score:4, Insightful)
*goes back to actually read the story now*
Craenor
Re:Power requirements... (Score:1)
But I'm still not sure that means you can take it home for a weekend and still have power Monday morning.
Article at infoSync (Score:5, Informative)
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Confused, chipset? (Score:2)
Many refer to chips as Chipsets such as ... (Score:2)
The white papers of all Motorola G4 processors refer to the G4 chip as a chipset due to the Altivec and Interger + cache implementations.
Bloody brilliant, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
But by that time, I'll want one with OLED or E-Ink
Accelent® Systems Designs New Tri-Wireless PDA (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.accelent.com/TMRG5.ASP?PAGE_ID=791
Single Chip BT is Good (Score:5, Interesting)
I hope that's the case. Just having my Powerbook talk to my T68 is handy...I'll get a headset eventually, and throw in a BT enable PDA and it's all good. In theory you could dial your phone from the PDA, speak on the headset, and never take the phone out of your pocket. And as nice as syncing my phone's phonebook with my PIM it will never be as nice as being able to dial from the PDA. Oh, and it would mean I could write an app to have my PDA notify me when my phone gets a page, since the SMS notification on the T68 is it's biggest flaw (at least to me).
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Bluetooth + WiFi + GSM = Way out of poverty (Score:2)
The techie equivalent of a swiss army knife... (Score:3, Funny)
Techie Equiv of swiss army knife? (Score:1)
Register [cashncarrion.co.uk]
It's not a Single Chipset (Score:5, Informative)
So, that's 6 ICs right there. Not a Single Chip, but a Single Chipset.
Since there is integration across the board, there are less worries about spectrum bashing (esp with WiFi and Bluetooth) since they can allocate the spectrum efficiently and properly.
And it's a Concept Design
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A Good Model? (Score:2)
So the question is, will the average cellphone purchaser pay extra for the convenience, or do cost-sensitve buyers always end up tilting the market towards one technology?
Now somebody needs to build a unified J2ME and BREW platform...
Form factor (Score:2)
Rus
AirPort Deluxe for macs (Score:1)
Bluetooth missile (Score:1, Funny)
"New hardware found: US Laser Guided Missile"
And then asks for DirectMedia 8 to be able to get a live cam view
Linux Drivers (Score:1, Insightful)
I want one to swap out my TiG4's airport card!!! (Score:1)
Yeah yeah, I could use my only pccard slot for a wifi board, but fragile protuberances are to be avoided, especially considering the abuse I inflict on laptops..
Re:pathetic (Score:2, Funny)
Bart: What?
Homer: C'mon, give it a name.
Bart: Mister Putter.
Homer: D'oh... You wanna try a little harder son? C'mon give it a girl's name.
Bart: Mom.
Homer: Your putter's name is Charlene!
Bart: Why?
Homer: It just is, that's why! Now this, is a picture of your enemy, Todd Flanders. Every day, I want you to spend
Re:Cool (Score:2)