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News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: TrueNTRYX122
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 December 2006
Platform expands entry-level handset
features
Agere Systems has introduced the TrueNTRYX122, a low-cost cellular phone platform for the market's largest segment.
Agere Systems has introduced the TrueNTRYX122, a low-cost cellular phone platform for the market's largest segment This announcement coincides with this week's 3G World Congress and Mobility Marketplace 2006 in Hong Kong
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Agere's new X122 platform consists of silicon chips, software (including Agere's proven protocol stack and frameworks) and a development kit.
The X122 platform adheres to the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) cellular standard.
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GPRS cellphones will remain the largest cellphone segment into 2010, according to the International Data Corporation.
Cellphones housing the X122 are scheduled to become commercially available in the first half of 2007.
The X122 platform enables a wide range of capabilities for entry-level phones including compact disc-quality music, camera/camcorder functions and Internet access for a bill of materials cost of less than $30.
Housed together with storage technology inside an entry-level cellphone, Agere's X122 platform gives entry-level cellphone users access to several hundred songs, which can be played at high-quality sound.
"The X122 platform enables Agere's customers to increase the quality and quantity of features on entry-level GPRS phones", said Denis Regimbal, Executive Vice President with Agere Systems.
"Agere's sampling of X122 platforms is another proof point of Agere's achievements delivering greater value to cellphone users in the large and growing entry-level and feature phone market segments".
The X122 is the second platform Agere has introduced as part of its TrueNTRY portfolio of products tailored for low-cost cellphones.
The first is the X125, which was introduced this past September.
Agere's X122 platform provides 12 features that reduce BOM costs including: integrated speaker amplifier; integrated CD-quality stereo; integrated polyphonic sound synthesiser; integrated Universal Serial Bus 2.0 On-the-Go controller with charging; integrated power management circuits to support all phone peripherals; and integrated battery charging circuits with overvoltage protection.
By providing a dedicated applications processor separate from the communications engine, the X122 platform reduces a cellphone manufacturer's product development costs and boosts overall processing speed.
The boosted horsepower provided by the dedicated applications processor enables several key benefits including: receiving phone calls or surfing the web while playing music; easing of applications software code development, test and verification for cellphone manufacturers because it doesn't impact the core communications engine; reducing power consumption because the more power-hungry applications processor can be powered down the majority of time a phone is on, freeing up cellphone manufacturers to focus on developing applications and man machine interfaces, without worrying about impacting the communications engine.
The X122 platform supports advanced audio processing including dynamic noise suppression, echo cancellation, full-duplex speakerphone and a stereo equaliser.
The X122's analogue baseband integrates the GSM/GPRS handset features such as power control, frequency control, analogue baseband processing, audio mixing and conversion, real time clock and power management.
Agere has already started shipping the platform to customers.
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