My question was a somewhat poorly worded in that it was meant to be taken
in a future not present tense. portable radios are fairly cheap so
presumably it should be inexpensive to put the appropriate RF chip in a
phone. if so I wonder if it possible for radio stations to send text info
with their broadcast that could be picked up by the phone (a simple example
would be a URL).
cheers,
jeff funk
At 16:20 03/02/03 +0900, you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Funk wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there a way for phones to access information through
>> the same FM subcarrier technology that Microsoft has proposed for special
>> watches?
>> http://wireless.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20423.html
>
>You would have to build that separate wireless chip into the phones.
>The FM radio band is a long, long way away from the bands that cellular
>phones use; I doubt that you could make much use of the cellular RF
>stuff in a phone to help you out.
>
>cjs
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