WANDA: a new PDA concept from Texas Instruments
According to rumours in the Web, next month Texas Instruments plans to release PDA concept codenamed WANDA Wireless Any Network Digital Assistant. In other words, it should support the most popular wireless interfaces, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS.
The device should feature TI’s proprietary OMAP1510 processor combined with a high-frequency BRF6100 Bluetooth chipset, TNETW1100B WLAN IEEE 802.11b chip and a miniature TCS2100 GSM/GPRS terminal. All of these are supposed to work under Microsoft Windows Pocket PC OS. This combination is expected to provide a low-power PDA platform.
Similar to AMD and Intel, Texas Instruments doesn’t plan to make its PDAs itself. The basic platform is to simplify PDA development by providing a nice WLAN set to third parties. WANDA-based devices are expected closer to the end of 2003.
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