Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article at LinuxDevices.com, Vanu Technology is demonstrating what it claims represents the world's first handheld 'software radio' using an iPAQ PDA running Linux at a conference in Washington DC today. Vanu apparently has implemented the signal processing functions on the iPAQ's XScale processor, and their software uses POSIX APIs to make it platform independent. Software radios implement multiple radio standards and frequency bands in software, rather than hardware. A standard iPAQ expansion pack houses the radio transceiver."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[gschwim]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Goose!

Awesome linux radio...

[Anonymous Coward]

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Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

A standard iPAQ expansion pack houses the radio transceiver."

If it requires a radio transceiver... why the heck are you calling it a software modem? In other words, big deal..

Oh wait, its running Lunix, no wonder it got a post on slashdot.... sigh....

reminds me of my old heath kit

[Gizzmonic]

Still available! I can't believe that people can still be ham radio dorks in 2003...God bless geeks and their intractibility!

IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[xxblackice]

RADIO powers YOU! (and linus powers radio)

Re:second post

[Joey Patterson]

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Off Topic

[Anonymous Coward]

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Amar Bose's son

[baldass]

runs Vanu Technology