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real carrier independence requires software radios

real carrier independence requires software radios

Posted Jun 28, 2007 20:55 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: real carrier independence requires software radios by stevenj
Parent article: An update from OpenMoko

For software radio to be technically viable, it's not enough for the CPU to be fast enough to keep up with hardware radio alternatives -- it would have to keep up while drawing the same amount of power. Not my area of expertise, but this seems like a pretty significant barrier.

(Then there are the idiotic FCC rules.)


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