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Portable Rotary Phone

2006-01-25 01:40:28.796931+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, watching a guy from Spark Fun Electronics give a presentation on the Portable Cellular Rotary Phone. They use a Telit GM862 board, for a hundred bucks and change you get a serial controlled GSM or GPRS or PCS module that you can interface to cheap microcontrollers, and it takes a standard SIM card.

They've even got one that looks like it'll let you pass Python[Wiki] across the AT command set...

If you're hacking with cell phone stuff, this looks like a reasonable way for mid-range quantities to build embedded cellular network apps.

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