Thursday, July 3, 2003
Software Radios Coming Soon?
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 10:00 PM
A couple months ago, I linked to a clunky software radio prototype running on an iPAQ. Interestingly, there's a company out there that plans to enable commercially available multinetwork phones by the end of 2004. That's only a year and a half away! And check out the comment about downloading new standards over the air...
"The White Plains, N.Y.-based company will begin shipping the chips this year to handset makers, and the first 'world phones' will appear by the end of 2004, according to Sandbridge spokesman Jeffrey Schwartz.
'That's three to five years ahead of what people thought,' he said.
Sandbridge's chips create chameleon-like radios for cell phones capable of changing from one interoperable wireless standard to the next. The radios flip among Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM), and any of a clutch of other wireless standards using either software stored in the phone or downloaded over the air."
"The White Plains, N.Y.-based company will begin shipping the chips this year to handset makers, and the first 'world phones' will appear by the end of 2004, according to Sandbridge spokesman Jeffrey Schwartz.
'That's three to five years ahead of what people thought,' he said.
Sandbridge's chips create chameleon-like radios for cell phones capable of changing from one interoperable wireless standard to the next. The radios flip among Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM), and any of a clutch of other wireless standards using either software stored in the phone or downloaded over the air."
