Wireless Systems Design

The media is simply overflowing with articles on Apple’s iPhone 2.0 which came out last month. I have already had the feeling that I was the only writer/editor/blogger/pundit who had NOT written about this device. So, here is my two cents worth...

There’s an old proverb saying that when one door closes, another opens. Well, this August’s issue of Wireless System Design (WSD) is the last. And while that is the bad news for those of you who have stayed with this publication, I have some good...

Openmoko will publish the schematics for its Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner mobile phones, further opening its mobile platform to the development community. Unlike other mobile phone manufacturers, the company already includes a free and open-source ...

High-Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) is now in business. On July 31, Qualcomm completed the world’s first data call using the wireless networking technology. According to the company, the call achieved a data-transfer rate of more than 20 Mbits/s...

In case you haven’t noticed, we live in a cell phone-centric world. Steve Largent, president and CEO of the CTIA said at one of the keynotes during the recent conference, “We are living through our cell phones”. At first I was skeptical of such a...

Each week I hear more about products and plans for the unlicensed 60 GHz spectrum. Yes, that is 60 gigahertz, or 60 billion cycles per second. Very high frequency indeed. What can you do with frequencies that high? Well, with all the progress in ...

New designs boost efficiency as multiple antennas per product becomes common