Nanoradio's Wi-Fi Solution Inside the World's First 3G UMA Mobile Phone

(Product News, 10 Oct 2008)

Nanoradio's "Always On WiFi" solution has been commercially launched inside the world's first 3G UMA phone. The same solution was also recently launched in a 2.5G UMA phone. The two phones, P250 and P270, will both be released by Samsung in multiple countries in Europe, opening up a new world of multimedia services to the UMA operator customer base. The P270 is the first device on the market that combines UMA and 3G network technology.

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) using dual mode cellular Wi-Fi handsets are a rapidly developing market on both sides of the Atlantic. Low power consuming Wi-Fi solutions are a critical enabling technology for this type of applications. The UMA phone requires the Wi-Fi to be active all time in order to receive an incoming or making an outgoing UMA call.

Nanoradio's "Always On WiFi" solution—the NRX700/2 Wi-Fi chipset—offers fully tested 802.11b/g functionality, featuring ultra-low power consumption enabling unparalleled UMA standby time and UMA talk time. The Nanoradio Wi-Fi solution is doubling the standby and talk time compared to standard UMA phone offerings. This results in that the UMA phone customer can adopt a behaviour of keeping the Wi-Fi Always On, removing the need for a "turn on and off the Wi-Fi behaviour" in order to save battery time.

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