A new Motorola-based wireless accessory for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Advance SP consoles enables near-proximity wireless gaming for up to five players.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector is supplying chipsets to enable a wireless adapter accessory for use with Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP. Deeming their own effort as 'revolutionary' despite Nokia's recent launch of the N-Gage game deck which enables both PAN and WAN multiplayer, the two companies aim to launch the acecssory in Japan in the first half of 2004.
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Utilizing the globally available 2.4 GHz radio frequency (RF) band, which is also used by Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standards, the chipset enables up to five players to play each other wirelessly. The wireless adapter makes use of the TDMA communication protocol, once a popular choice with cellular network operators in the U.S. but now being phased out in exchange for standards such as GSM and CDMA.
Despite its use of the TDMA protocol, the accessory is not capable of WAN connectivity - and just what range it will be able to communicate is still not known as the two companies did not comment on this particular topic.
Scheduled for launch in Japan in the first half of 2004, the new accessory will first be supported by - and sold with - with two new Game Boy Advance games: 'Pokémon FireRed' and 'Pokémon LeafGreen'.
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