WLAN + VOIP with good battery life?
Posted by Chris Leckness on 01/14/06 in Wifi / Bluetooth
There have been a few companies try to make the perfect VOIP Wi-Fi phone, but few been that big of a hit for one reason…. poor battery life. Well, SyChip hopes to change that with the release of their WLAN7100 chip.
The WLAN7100 is both an 802.11g WLAN adapter and a VOIP processor, all in one chip. Not only that, but devices using this chip will still be able to get around 8 hours of talk time. Here’s an excerpt from an InternetNews article on the chip:
"Into the bargain, SyChip engineers have made great strides to clearing one of the more troublesome hurdles to widespread adoption of voice over WLAN: power usage. Current specs claim the VoIP engine consumes less than 15mA of power during use, with the total solution—including the power-hungry WLAN components—using only about 150mA during a call. Which means a standard 1200mA-hour battery will let you talk for about eight hours. Standby time is calculated at 100 hours." - InternetNews.com
This chip should really be great for the mobile industry. I think we’ll begin seeing a lot of phones, smartphones, and Pocket PCs using this chip within the next year or so. The WLAN7100 will now leave few reasons for smartphone manufacturers to not include Wi-Fi in their devices, and now even VOIP.
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