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                    Cellphone guts for the curious, Part II
                                        
My friend Brian forwarded this comment about cellphone guts [1] to me (the
lateness is due to getting permission to post this email from a third party):

> From: Brian Yoder <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: Fwd: Cellphone guts for the curious … - The Boston Diaries -
>         Captain Napalm
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:49:23 -0500
> 
> Sean,
> 
> I passed along your blog post to my friend Chip, and here is his response.
> 
> Regards,
>  Brian
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: XXXXX XXXXX
> > To: Brian Yoder <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> > Subject: Re: Cellphone guts for the curious … - The Boston Diaries -
> >         Captain Napalm
> > Date: January 23, 2013, 1:50:52 AM EST
> > 
> > They must have done a very good virtualization work, because FCC (Federal
> > Communications Commission) regulations specify that the computer that
> > runs the transmit recieve be separate from the rest of the phone and with
> > a ROM (Read Only Memory).
> > 
> > It drove cell phone manufactures nuts because of cost, but the FCC did
> > want any one to hack in to phone and change the radio software.
> > 
> 

Ah … politics trumps technology … 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2013/01/22.2

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