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| Open Linux phone gets datacasts |
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Wednesday, September 10 2008 @ 01:59 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde
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The Communications Research Center Canada (CRC) has created a prototype handset that can receive datacasting signals. Its Linux-based "Openmokast" phone is built atop OpenMoko's open-source Neo FreeRunner phone platform, and along with typical smartphone functions, supports reception of live digital radio, video, and data broadcasts.
Using the highly hackable OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner phone as a foundation, the CRC's Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (MMB) team added a receiver to decode wireless mediacasting services including DAB, DAB+, DMB, Slideshow, Visual Radio, and Journaline. It fit the USB-based receiver and its antenna into the device by enlarging the FreeRunners case with a spacer, shown below. Read more
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