On Tuesday, Cooper used his keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston to run down a list of complaints against the wireless industry that ranged from closed carrier networks to inefficient cellular antenna systems to the design of smart phones like the iPhone, which he argues are overly complex.

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The chip giant says technology trends such as the upgrade to faster, 4G cellular networks and the move to tiered pricing for wireless data have made pico projector phones newly relevant.

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Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.

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While the combination of the two wireless vendors makes good business sense, the task of integrating two different cellular networks will be complicated and potentially expensive, requiring technology that isn't even on the market yet.

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For such wireless networks, Google has publicly supported the possibility of using small, inexpensive cellular devices, called "micro cells" that would be located at the access points and would harness the TV airwaves to broadcast the equivalent of a 3G or 4G wireless signal for devices within a quarter-mile radius.

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An internal retractable modem will enable a user to connect with some of the most popular wireless networks today, including Motient's DataTAC, BellSouth's Mobitex and CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data).

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Cellular providers also need to justify the billions of dollars they spent building up the high-speed wireless networks required to run these services.

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