Cellphones reach new programmability levels

Via Slashphone

Sandbridge Technologies says that they will revolutionize the cellphone industry by adding programmability in radio processing, a domain where fixed-function chips were used until now. For most users it just means that phones will evolve much quicker because new functionalities can be added in software instead of designing a new chip. Also, if Sandbridge do what they claim, we might not have to choose between GSM & CDMA anymore:

“The processor can run virtually any radio protocol such as GSM/GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, CDMA2000, 1xEV-DO, TD-SCDMA, WiFi and GPS-as well as multimedia formats like MPEG-4 H.264, MP-3, WMA and more.”