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Japanese component maker Murata has developed an 802.11b/g chip that’s 9.6 x 9.6 x 1.8 mm in size. It has already shipped limited quantities to several cellphone manufacturers, and—to turn the usual pattern on its head—the chip will appear first in US smartphones, not in a Japan-market product. There’s already one WiFi cellphone about to hit Japanese shelves, from NEC, but news about other models is thin to nonexistent at the moment. We get the feeling that Japanese carriers may not be all that enthusiastic about anything that speeds up the inexorable move toward flat rates for data, given the prophecies of doom that have surrounded that particular development.
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Posted: 2004-06-13 15:06
