May
28
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5/28/2009 6:41 AM
Research In Motion’s first 3G (third-generation)-data-capable “world” phone, the BlackBerry 9000, or Bold, gets a tech inspection courtesy of an EDN partnership with phoneWreck. How did RIM squeeze triple- or quad-band UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), triple-protocol Wi-Fi, a QWERTY keypad, and copious additional capabilities into a 4.5×2.6×0.5-in., 4.7-oz form factor? To figure out where you are, you can leverage the integrated SiRF GSC3LTif GPS receiver, which works with the phone’s cellular subsystems in an A-GPS (assisted-GPS) mode. To show others where you are, you can use the phone’s built-in and LED-flash-augmented, 2M-pixel camera with digital-zoom capabilities, which also captures 480×320-pixel video streams. Audio capture and playback, the latter both via the embedded speaker and a headphone jack, are the bailiwick of Texas Instruments’ TLV320AIC3106 codec.
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