The iPhone Killer News is Back
“On Monday, Microsoft filed a mystery application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. Sounds like a VoiP device, right?
Not really. The device is described as being used for “consumer broadband access and networking,†which doesn’t sound like vanilla VoIP to me. Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth. Well, why not? The standard OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is a modulation scheme that is used widely in upcoming 4G standards of the future. But with wireless access gaining momentum, and the all-around arms race for bandwidth, 4G starts to make sense, in a crazy, crazy kind of way.”
The guys over at CrunchGear just released an article about the iPhone killer; the Zune Phone. I’m sure that you can see that it’s an interesting article just from reading the quote above. I’ll suggest you head on over there if you’re at all interested in this battle of giants.
[via CrunchGear]
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