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Wanda - Wifi, GSM/GPRS, and bluetooth Pocket PC

posted Wednesday, 23 July 2003

Finally a convergence device to get excited about!

Those who have read previous entries should remember the frustrating quest to find a device that is both a phone and has wifi.  And although this isn't actually the announcement of a new product (that would be too easy!), Texas Instruments has come out with a "concept" or "reference design" of a Pocket PC with a GSM/GPRS Cellphone capability, Wifi (wireless networking), and bluetooth.  The device is named Wanda for "Wireless Any Network Digital Assistant." They are trying to get other companies to build this and incorporate with it their specifications and one of their chips.  Let's hope that a bunch take the call and maybe we will have something by the holidays?

Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads up!

Here's another article from Pocket PC Magazine.

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1. kt left...
Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:59 pm

have to admit, that does sound pretty cool.

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2. bloggingburt left...
Thursday, 24 July 2003 4:21 pm

I wasn't really forcing the question but I knew this would eventually come up. You can find Lino's Bar in Cascais, Portugal. A bit far from Cheers ;-) Tks for the Boston tips, don't know if I'm coming back though!