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Modu reveals the T, a tiny modular Brewphone, keeps us waiting for the Android-based W
Modu Mobile finally came clean about the T-phone today, but we're afraid it's bittersweet news -- it's not the lilliputan Android device we've been lusting after for months (that's coming "in the near future") but rather a Brew-based tri-band phone with a 2.2-inch QVGA touchscreen on the relatively old QSC6270 chipset. Thankfully, it does have a host of modular accessories that up its geek quotient radically. You can "camerafy" your Modu by sliding it into a 5 megapixel shell, "sportfy" it with an exercise armband sleeve, "boostify" by slotting it into a combo speaker dock / base station, or even "textify" by adding a vertical QWERTY keyboard. Considering the phone is apparently still Guinness-certified as the lightest touchscreen device in the world, we imagine these combinations will be similarly svelte, but we'll still be waiting for the Android-infused Modu W to appear, thank you very much. PR after the break. %Gallery-104718%
Qualcomm announces single-chip UMTS and HSDPA
It seems the "set" part of "chipset" doesn't really apply to Qualcomm's latest solutions for WCDMA-based 3G handsets. Their QSC6240 and QSC6270 products -- for UMTS and UMTS / HSDPA, respectively -- integrate pretty much everything you need to make a phone on a single 65nm die (a radio transceiver, modem, processor, and power management subsystem, to be exact). Features include quad-band GSM, support for still cameras up to 3 megapixels, 72-tone polyphony, USB 2.0, 15fps video, and a veritable who's-who of codec support -- all in the manufacturer's choice of one 3G band from 800, 850, and 900MHz, and two from 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2100MHz. So if you were... you know, waiting for a single-chip solution to manufacture that UMTS phone you're planning, now's your chance.[Thanks, TJ]
