Digital cameras are great for taking dozens and dozens of pictures without worrying about running out of film. But then you have to wrestle with different cables as you download them all to your computer. Samsung Techwin and Alereon Inc. have teamed up to take those knotty wires out of that chore.

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Designed for Samsung’s digital still cameras, the company’s NaBee wireless connectivity solution takes advantage of Alereon’s AL5000 Worldwide Wireless USB chip set. Users simply plug NaBee’s miniature dongle into the camera and its matching dongle into the PC, connecting the devices as well as any standard USB cable. NaBee will be available this December.

Praising Alereon’s expertise in the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB space, Samsung says it chose the AL5000 chip set after examining available Certified Wireless USB products because of its worldwide compatibility, performance, cost, and ease of integration.

The AL5000 family transmits and receives WiMedia band groups 1 through 6, spanning 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. Unlike competitive band group 1 or band group 3 solutions, which offer as little as a single channel in non-U.S. applications, Alereon provides consumers in Europe, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand with as many as 19 additional channels.

As a result, Samsung can offer NaBee to customers around the world. Also, manufacturers standardizing on Alereon solutions can produce a single product or SKU that can be designed and sold worldwide with a simple software modification to meet local regulatory requirements.

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Alereon’s AL5000 chip set powers Samsung Techwin’s NaBee, which lets users wirelessly download pictures from their digital camera right to their computers.

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