While the device uses the same radio frequency band as the upcoming personal area networking technology Bluetooth, it uses a different transmission protocol.

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"Bluetooth is first and foremost a personal area networking technology, and the devices it can show up in are kind of limited, " Hanson says.

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Ericsson's Screen Phone, which runs the open-source Linux operating system, combines both Internet access and a speaker phone, and will communicate with a home base station using the emerging Bluetooth technology for wireless personal area networking.

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