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This particular hardware may be limited to those frequencies but I believe the Mediatek combo chips that do WiFi+BT+GPS+GLONASS+Beidou+FM as well as GSM are capable of a much wider range. WiFi and BT are at 2.4GHz but GSM/UMTS/LTE reach up to 2.6GHz and down to 800-900MHz, and the various navigation systems use frequencies in the 1.x GHz range. From what I've read, only the FM hardware is different due to its vastly different frequency (76-108MHz, although the hardware could probably go beyond those ranges slightly) but everything else is based on the same SDR.


Which chips are those? Most of those solutions I had seen were not actually a single output stage but rather each band had dedicated pins that went out to dedicated PA's in many cases. So wifi/BT has its own antenna and front end etc.. same for the other bands..


Start on page 34 of this:

http://www.datasheetspdf.com/datasheet/download.php?id=73999...

The combo chip itself probably has multiple SDRs internally so that e.g. you can use GPS and WiFi/BT simultaneously, but they can be connected externally to the same antenna through a diplexer.




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