Technology trends in mobile handsets

The mobile handset is well established as a business and consumer device, expanding beyond the foundation built on earlier mobile handset technology. The functions and capabilities of the handset are continually evolving. Handset providers, application developers and users are putting ever greater demands on handsets which simultaneously strain limited battery power and require higher data transfer. This results in ever more challenging requirements on the RF front-end of the handset. At the same time there are cost pressures that require functions to be provided ever more economically. This paper discussed these trends, the implications in front-end architecture, and some of the advanced implementations that address these dynamics.