Monday, March 27, 2006

CSR Brings Bluetooth Connectivity to O2's Latest Device, the Xda Atom


CSR announced that O2's latest product, the Xda Atom, features CSR's BlueCore3 silicon and Bluetooth version 1.2 software stack. In designing the Xda Atom, O2 used CSR BlueCore3 technology to bring robust, power-efficient Bluetooth wireless connectivity to complement the handset's wide range of multimedia and mobile office features. The new tri-band PDA-phone with GPRS/EDGE functionality went on sale in Asia Pacific in December.

Billed as the smallest multimedia PDA-phone available, the Xda Atom offers the best and latest in mobile entertainment, connectivity and productivity. It features O2 MediaPlus, the first media centre designed for a PDA-phone that gives customers easy-to-use, single screen access to music, video and photo functions and libraries. The Xda Atom is also the first PDA-phone to feature an FM radio tuner and an upgraded 2.0 Mega Pixel camera with an LED strobe flash that supports video capture.

In order to provide users with the most flexible wireless experience possible, the Xda Atom offers both Wireless LAN and Bluetooth wireless connectivity so customers can hop online at any hotspot or enjoy music wirelessly via Bluetooth headsets. To offer users this rich multimedia experience with seamless connectivity, O2 chose to go with a Bluetooth solution that offers advanced coexistence with IEEE802.11, allowing for both wireless technologies to operate in close proximity without signal interference.

The use of CSR's BlueCore3 technology and Bluetooth version 1.2 software stack brings critical Bluetooth wireless connectivity to the Xda Atom allowing users to talk handsfree using a mono headset or transfer music, photo files and video clips between the handset and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. BlueCore3 also supports advanced co-existence techniques such as adaptive frequency hopping (AFH), to ensure there is no interference with the other RF components of the handset.

More information can be found at http://www.csr.com and the partner web site http://www.btdesigner.com

More information about Bluetooth technology can be found on the SIG web site at http://www.bluetooth.com

You can read the full press release at Mobilitysite

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