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."
We'll be seeing phones with this fitted... ooh... five minutes after everyone's bought a camera phone?
-- I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction.
It's an irrational fear.
Anywhere access...
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Justen
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I have been waiting for this for quite a while.
The idea of "anywhere" access isn't new. Almost every wireless company has included it in their.com business plans at one point or another. But there has always been a reality that it just isn't all that realistic for a single protocol. That is, it isn't very cost-effective to utilize a wide-area terrestrial wireless network when you are sitting five feet from an wi-fi base station.
I think that this card will bring mobile warriors a bit closer to the idea of truly affordable anywhere access.
justen
Power requirements...
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craenor
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Like to see what the power draw on this chip is. WiFi is a power hog. Something like this sounds like it would be pretty ideal for portable computers.
*goes back to actually read the story now*
Craenor
Linux Drivers
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molli123
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thinking about 22MBit Wireless Chips that are at least not currently supported, I don't see, why I should buy something like this if I can't use it using Linux,
Micha !
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The submitter didn't even RTFA. WANDA (there's the link that the submitter was too lazy to give you) is at least 7 chips.
We'll be seeing phones with this fitted... ooh... five minutes after everyone's bought a camera phone?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
I have been waiting for this for quite a while.
.com business plans at one point or another. But there has always been a reality that it just isn't all that realistic for a single protocol. That is, it isn't very cost-effective to utilize a wide-area terrestrial wireless network when you are sitting five feet from an wi-fi base station.
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
Like to see what the power draw on this chip is. WiFi is a power hog. Something like this sounds like it would be pretty ideal for portable computers.
*goes back to actually read the story now*
Craenor
thinking about 22MBit Wireless Chips that are at least not currently supported, I don't see, why I should buy something like this if I can't use it using Linux, Micha !