[Gta04-owner] New antenna for 4G/3G/GSM

[Boudewijn]

On Tuesday 09 October 2012 08:41:10 Christ van Willegen wrote:
> I found the following article (in Dutch, but perhaps an English
> version can be found from its source) about a new antenna that's been
> developed for new mobile communication:
> 
> http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/112047/kleinste-antenne-maakt-smartphone-energie
> zuiniger.html
> 
> Christ van Willegen

For a future GTA0x I was actually wondering if software defined radio would be 
feasible. 

There's actually some quite low priced hardware nowadays that can do 
reception, based on DVB-T dongles :
<http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr>

Pushed a bit, those dongles do reception from 50MHz to over 2GHz. I hope 
there's news about a transmitter in a friendly price range before to long.

Would that be an option to use for a mobile communications device? I have no 
idea about energy use patterns of software decoding versus hardware antennas. 
I presume it'll use more energy, but we'd need fewer antennas and supporting 
chips, which allows for more battery.

Best regards,

Boudewijn
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