What do you ppl think about and the concept of the Personal Mobile Gateways PMG ?
The following is quoted from www.arstechnica.com
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The Personal Mobile Gateway (PMG) is a cool idea!
Posted 12/6/2001 - 1:36AM by Hannibal
After a month-long bout with Real Life?, I'm back on the Ars tip with some news from my favorite spot, the EET. As reported in this article, a startup called IXI Mobile has launched with a new product concept called the Personal Mobile Gateway, or PMG. I hit their website and dug up a nice bit of concept art from one of their whitepapers. Check it:
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As you can see from the above pic, the idea is that you carry the PMG around in your pocket and all of your various gadgets use it, via Bluetooth, to talk to each other and to the outside world. The PMG assigns IPs to each gadget on the Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), and acts as both a router and a bridge to the outside world. So your phone, for instance, would make calls through the gateway instead of directly onto the cellular network, meaning that the phone itself could be more compact than a standard mobile. In the end, the PMG is basically a way to add telephony to a variety of personal gadgets without having to stick an antenna, a large battery, and other bits of cellular tech on each one.
The first device will use Bluetooth for the PAN and cellular technology for the WAN, but since it's basically an ARM7 core, some flash memory and a radio transmitter it would be easy to release a version for 802.11b, 802.11g or any other kind of wireless interface for either the PAN or the WAN.
Anyway, I like this idea a lot, and I think it makes perfect sense. Even if this particular company doesn't wind up suceeding, it seems reasonable to expect that something like this will eventually wind up in widespread use. >>
Click below for a digram of the concept. (from www.arstechnica.com)
http://arstechnica.com/images/news/news-t3.jpg
The following is quoted from www.arstechnica.com
<<
The Personal Mobile Gateway (PMG) is a cool idea!
Posted 12/6/2001 - 1:36AM by Hannibal
After a month-long bout with Real Life?, I'm back on the Ars tip with some news from my favorite spot, the EET. As reported in this article, a startup called IXI Mobile has launched with a new product concept called the Personal Mobile Gateway, or PMG. I hit their website and dug up a nice bit of concept art from one of their whitepapers. Check it:
<DIV align=center></DIV>
As you can see from the above pic, the idea is that you carry the PMG around in your pocket and all of your various gadgets use it, via Bluetooth, to talk to each other and to the outside world. The PMG assigns IPs to each gadget on the Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), and acts as both a router and a bridge to the outside world. So your phone, for instance, would make calls through the gateway instead of directly onto the cellular network, meaning that the phone itself could be more compact than a standard mobile. In the end, the PMG is basically a way to add telephony to a variety of personal gadgets without having to stick an antenna, a large battery, and other bits of cellular tech on each one.
The first device will use Bluetooth for the PAN and cellular technology for the WAN, but since it's basically an ARM7 core, some flash memory and a radio transmitter it would be easy to release a version for 802.11b, 802.11g or any other kind of wireless interface for either the PAN or the WAN.
Anyway, I like this idea a lot, and I think it makes perfect sense. Even if this particular company doesn't wind up suceeding, it seems reasonable to expect that something like this will eventually wind up in widespread use. >>
Click below for a digram of the concept. (from www.arstechnica.com)
http://arstechnica.com/images/news/news-t3.jpg
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