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		bmohlenhoff on July 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Perlman unveils white paper explaining “impo... How did they fit enough transmit elements into a cell phone to do that? I thought cell phone antennae were omnidirectional.

tcgore on July 28, 2011 [–]

That is the big claimed upside of this approach, the cell phone transmitter receiver is very simple, with only 1 antenna. The base station number crunching becomes much more sophisticated, but that is fine.

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