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I'm glad this wasn't another PR stunt about mobile phone viruses -- we don't live in that particular William Gibson novel. Pics here: http://radian.org/notebook

by blasdel 17y ago

I'm glad this wasn't another PR stunt about mobile phone viruses -- we don't live in that particular William Gibson novel. Pics here: http://radian.org/notebook/van-helsingfors http://radian.org/notebook/van-helsingfors I do wonder what the chain of hardware issues is that's causing their interference problem. Perhaps the phones all use SoC designs where the CPU, modems, and possibly RAM are all on one die -- would that allow extreme WiFi / cellular noise to flip bits?

DougBTX 17y ago
Another possibility: they are testing software, so want to keep the CPU free. But phones in a noisy environment are continually trying and failing to connect, wasting resources. Not sure why one would affect the other so much though, so this is a sketchy guess.