Photos: Mobile mania at 3GSM

These are Staccato Communication's ultrawideband (UWB) chips. UWB has been around in the States for a while, but is only now being allowed into Europe. The technology essentially uses other people's spectrum, and one UWB radio can interact with multiple protocols. As the name suggests, it also allows oodles of bandwidth.

The first application will be wireless USB, which you can expect to see phased into all sorts of electronic equipment over the coming months and years. UWB will also form the basis for the third generation of Bluetooth, which will hopefully arrive in the middle of 2008.