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
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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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