On 9/28/07, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is starting to bug me, I've been hunting around to see if I could
> find a GSM cellular baseband chip that a hobbyist can obtain.  It
> seems every outfit I reach(tried Freescale, NXP and TI thus far), will
> only sell to high-volume OEMs.  There's the OpenMoko project, but it
> looks like the hardware isn't open - only the software.
>
> Does anyone know of a maker of these chips who will sell hobbyist quantities?

Could you use a GSM module instead?
Just came across a vendor website (they sell PICkit 2 and ICD2 clones
so that I got to know the name). I do not buy anything on eBay so that
I do not know how good the vendor is.

http://www.sure-electronics.com/products/rf/gp-gc.html
http://stores.ebay.com/Sure-Electronics

http://hbmobile.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware
This page gives some ideas to get Wifi modules and
GSM modules, for example, Wifi modules from Gumstix.

Xiaofan
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