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News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio | Subject: UniVox
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2007
Voice over Wi-Fi design drives SunCorp
handset
CSR has announced that its Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) design, UniVox, has been selected by SunCorp Technologies for its first generation of Wi-Fi handsets.
CSR has announced that its Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) design, UniVox, has been selected by SunCorp Technologies for its first generation of Wi-Fi handsets Using UniFi, CSR's single-chip Wi-Fi silicon, SunCorp has used its knowhow of the residential consumer market to introduce SIP-based residential phones that allow users to make VoIP calls directly from a handset which is connected wirelessly to a Wi-Fi access point, thus giving consumers a user experience close to that of a DECT phone
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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SunCorp Technologies' Solus Wi-Fi phones have been designed around UniVox, CSR's VoWi-Fi reference design, which has been developed to bring talk time and standby time in line with those of a residential DECT phone.
They are currently being demonstrated on CSR's stand (E51, Hall 1) at 3GSM Congress in Barcelona.
Simon Finch, VP Wi-Fi Strategic Business Unit, CSR, commented: "Bringing talk time and standby time to comparable levels to existing DECT phones is a real driver for migrating consumers onto VoWi-Fi".
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"SunCorp has combined the highly integrated, low cost and power features of CSR's UniVox design with its own volume manufacturing capabilities and stylish industrial design to create highly usable and price sensitive VoWi-Fi phones which offer wide adoption for residential users".
CSR's UniVox reference design is based on the industry's lowest power, single-chip Wi-Fi silicon, UniFi, and is in a chip scale package (CSP) that allows a very small footprint (6 x 6mm).
Furthermore, UniVox's onboard MAP (multimedia applications processor) which combines a low power RISC based applications processor with a high performance DSP function, audio codecs and echo cancellation to ensure high voice quality.
The UniVox platform also includes a default MMI (man machine interface) and software development kit to further configure the phone's interface and add additional codecs if required.
Parag Jani, Head of Product Management, SunCorp added: "Choosing a design partner for our VoWi-Fi phones who clearly understood the current and future consumer handset environment was vital in allowing us to build further on our position as leading innovator in the residential phone market".
Parag continued: "CSR's UniVox design has allowed us an exceptionally short time to market which has helped us to deliver Solus Wi-Fi handsets as highly usable products delivering an attractive proposition to the consumer".
"At 3 GSM we will introduce two products, an entry level mono display and a high end 1.8in colour display version".
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