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This must be bullshit.
Ericsson has mobile phones with Bluetooth all ready.

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The public land mobile network (PLMN) was developed for LAND use, and a few assumptions were made in the process. Making the system available for a few (airborne) customers would simply make it less efficient for the rest. As with all engineering, the designs involve several trade-offs. The entire system was designed around keeping the mobile terminals cheap and mass-producable, so everyone can buy a cheap phone and use it 99% of the time. We do not have unlimited hardware budgets, and we are not trying to make the phones universally usable (under water, tunnels, on planes, at sea, etc).

The GSM standard assumes that the mobile station is moving at less than about 300 miles per hour. At higher speeds, the doppler shift becomes very significant. You do the math. This becomes a very hard (expensive) spatial geometry problem to solve for a simple 8-bit processor in a phone (that is already loaded down with a lot of protocol tasks).

The standards also assume that you're near the ground level. Sure, when you transmit, you'll light up several cells from a plane (typical PCS-band cell radius on the order of a mile or two, with a maximum radius of 22 miles). Likewise, you're hearing several base stations at once. Again, a hard problem to solve.

For more info on how it all works, see "The Mobile Telephony Primer" at http://alanporter.com. If you still have questions, send me an email.

I just wanted to point out that Ericsson also has tools like this avalible. I don't know how they compair, but they can be found here. http://www.ericsson.com/developerzone

You can get som more info about the mp3player here and see what it looks like.

Just in case anyone got interested, before you dive into the muddy hell that is www.ericsson.se, here's a quick link to a tiny picture of the MP3 player accessory for the T18. To complete that, here's a link to some information about the device itself. Don't expect any hard info (such as memory capacity, battery life, price, or availability) though... ;(

Just in case anyone got interested, before you dive into the muddy hell that is www.ericsson.se, here's a quick link to a tiny picture of the MP3 player accessory for the T18. To complete that, here's a link to some information about the device itself. Don't expect any hard info (such as memory capacity, battery life, price, or availability) though... ;(

You could use an EPOC PDA : they have good email and web browsing apps - but you'd need a data capable mobile phone to go with it..

I'd go for either the Ericsson MC218

or

The Psion revo

oh yeah, and there's more revo info here.

For the phone, something like a Nokia 7100 Series or 8200 Series would do.

There's currently an HTML browser for the psion devices, with a WML one promised. The MC218 already has a WML browser.

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Oh, forgot. Sony is also an Epoc licensee - and they make cool devices!

Go ARM!

Everybody can test this portal by using one of these wap toolkits:
Ericsson
Motorola
Nokia
phone.com

I bought a T28 about 3 months ago (as soon as they were available in New Zealand). It does almost everything you could ever want in a phone, it even has Tetris & solitaire for those who like games, & voice dialing which I find very ahndy when I'm feeling lazy. .. it weighs about 80-90 grams. I forget I have it in my pocket. It gets my vote.

What CNet said about cell phones in japan isnt really new. Email/Short Message Service is available worldwide, so is voicemail (though not locally on the phone), and voice recognition/dialing, and special ringtones etc etc can all be found in most GSM cell phones made by Nokia and Ericsson. Whats new are the i-mode phones by NTT DoCoMo. These have 256 color vdeo capable displays and other neat features.

But there's much new stuff. This Intel page explains a lot of the history behind Bluetooth.

Basically, (the Intel page doesn't say this) some engineers at Ericsson thought about designing a new protocol for communication between their (Ericsson's) devices in 1994, and started developing it. The project wasn't initially called Bluetooth, but "MC link" (MC = Multi-Communicator). But somewhere during the development, they started to realize that the chips needed for this would be much cheaper if it was a widely adopted standard, so they started talking with their arch rival Nokia about sharing the technology and making it a common standard. They formed a Special Interest Group (SIG) in 1998, together with some other well-known companies (amongst others IBM, Intel, Motorola, 3Com, Casio, Cirrus Logic, TDK, Compaq, Dell, Xircom, Lucent, Toshiba, Psion, Qualcomm and Axis).
Last year they released the specification for version 1.0 of the standard. And experimental Bluetooth devices have been built using the standard and shown on various expos last year, and real devices are under development now. I think we'll see many of these devices released this year. That's the brief history of Bluetooth.

Here is also Ericsson's Bluetooth site. Here's the specs.

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Watch out, this slogan is already taken :)

Palm has a huge momentum in the US, and in Europe there's no doubt that Symbian will rule the smartphone and handheld market completely. Looking at their website they have special made versions of the OS for many screen sizes and devices. It's only a question of _when_ those things will appear on the market. To get a brief hint on what's to come, look at how many awars the Psion Revo has won!

It will be very interesting to see an OS not really made to work on small devices compete in this arena. WinCE failed badly - PalmOS is doing quite well even though it's hardly a real OS, and the Symbian OS has been tailor made by first Psion and now Symbian since many many years for exactly this ...

Yeah, I have devices with WinCE, PalmOS and the Symbian OS ;) The MC218 (by Ericsson) is the one I use for my daily work ...

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Um, people don't have to "trash their existing phone system[s]" just to use something with DECT. Most DECT devices I've seen (standard home cordless phones, such as these beauties) use DECT internally, while connecting to your existing home analog phone system in the base station end only.

Ericsson is first with a new device using a new protocol enabling data transmissions at 112 KBps over existing GSM networks. It's called GPRS, and it's currently being implemented by a German operator called T-Mobil. There's more info at www.gprsworld.com.


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