HOLLY GRAIL... Software based radio... I thought this was only a SciFi. WTF so few companies use it then. This would make ANY phone a world phone. Just cram a powerful signal processor into any phone and let the software manage the frequencies instead of radio chips. Phones would be slimmer, more choice for the end user...imagine being able to pick up that gorgeous Nokia N95 and run it on Sprint, VZV, T-Mobile, at&t, alltel, cricket and every tiny rural network just by flipping the power button on and letting the phone find the network based on the sim card. Ahhh...I'm back on earth now. The harsh reality kicks in. :-(
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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HOLLY GRAIL... Software based radio... I thought this was only a SciFi. WTF so few companies use it then. This would make ANY phone a world phone. Just cram a powerful signal processor into any phone and let the software manage the frequencies instead of radio chips. Phones would be slimmer, more choice for the end user...imagine being able to pick up that gorgeous Nokia N95 and run it on Sprint, VZV, T-Mobile, at&t, alltel, cricket and every tiny rural network just by flipping the power button on and letting the phone find the network based on the sim card. Ahhh...I'm back on earth now. The harsh reality kicks in. :-(
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