2 May
2011
2 May
'11
8:13 p.m.
Hi,
After all, it would be the first
mobile phone that he himself would be able to use, given that there
is no proprietary software on the baseband anymore.
Well, if you're extremist about it, there is still the DSP.
Not much we can do about it without making our own ASIC tough :p
Here in Morocco, I've had some further discussion
on the topic face to
face with him, and he is sort of unhappy with the fact that nobody is
working on making an actual self-contained phone (no matter how simple
or limited in features) that can be used by a regular user as 'just a
phone'.
Well, even if we have reached major milestones (IMHO) and are able to
make actual phone calls, there is still a bunch of things missing even
for voice / SMS and reliability problems in some cases.
Besides the UI there is also a lot of things that need to be done to
be usable as a phone, like being able to charge the battery, or at
least not drain it in a few hours by having all chips fully powered on
all the time.
e will try to draft a similar job description related
to MS-side GPRS
support (L1, RLC/MAC, ..). That would be yet another area where we
would appreciate some contribution, and which eventually be important
beyond our existing voice telephony capabilities.
The RLC/MAC layer can certainly be useful for a lot of reasons (both
MS and BTS side),
but is anyone seriously gonna use GPRS non-edge ?
Cheers,
Sylvain