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Voice Over Wireless LAN On A Chip

Posted by timothy on from the more-voip-phones-perhaps dept.

prostoalex writes "Texas Instruments produced a single chip platform for transmitting voice over wireless LANs. The company says the phones using the chip will be available by year-end. The chip supports 802.11b and 802.11g wireless networks."

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  1. Re:So... by danalien · · Score: 2, Informative
    ahm,

    don't you "see the picture"?

    to quote one phrase from the article

    • "The TNETV1600 platform "provides the cost savings, flexibility and power management to allow developers to manufacture a
    • WLAN IP phone with talk and standby time comparable to cell phones," according to the Dallas, Texas-based company.

    ... so that when you are close (with or enabled-mobilephone) to a 'hotspot' .... you could call someone via VoIP instead ....

    Heck, it makes one userfirendly way for newbies who would like to enable VoIP at home, "use your regular mobile" instead of/over "<all that what one does at the computer to make VoIP calls...>" ... lets face it, most ppl who can operate a phone can't operate a computer, but one that can operate a computer can also operate a phone :) ...

    /* anyhow, that's my interpretation of *this */

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