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."

Comments

blech.

[nbvb]

Who wants GSM?

It's so weakly encrypted, anyone with a cheap pentium can crack it real-time.

Companies in England & France have problems with industrial espionage -- people sit on each side of the channel with parabolic dishes and listen in on other companies' cell calls.

Who needs that?

At least CDMA requires military-grade equipment to crack in nearly-real-time.

You can keep your GSM crap-ola.

--NBVB

p.s. We can put twice the amount of calls in the same spectrum using CDMA vs. GSM. Also a Good Thing.