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Souped-up Wi-Fi Handset Includes Web Browsing And Email
News The Wi-Fi phone market is set to heat up, with a maker announcing a handset that can do Web browsing and email, in addition to voice. However, the 7920 will have a wireless handset that uses an office's Wi-Fi network to connect.
[July 2, 2003, 9:19]
Skype And Netgear Join Forces For Wi-Fi Launch
News Networking products maker Netgear and Internet telephony provider Skype on Wednesday unveiled the first Wi-Fi phone designed to work on the internationally popular VoIP service. The so-called Wi-Fi phone, which will allow Skype users to access the...
[January 5, 2006, 9:35]
Wi-Fi Hotspot Phone Launched By Samsung
News Samsung has launched its first unlicensed mobile access (UMA) handset in Europe. It supports Wi-Fi as well as GSM and GPRS, so it can be used to make calls at a public hotspot, or over a home or office wireless network.
[July 19, 2006, 16:20]
Wi-Fi Phone Promises Seamless Switching
News Handset maker Motorola on Monday introduced a new phone that it says will switch calls seamlessly between cellular services and wireless Internet networks, potentially offering business customers big savings if the technology works as promised.
[July 27, 2004, 8:50]
New Wi-Fi Challenges 3G
News The signals themselves can get so misdirected they actually interfere with each other as they find their way to a handset or cellular base station's antenna, said Jon Hambidge, senior director of marketing for IPWireless, one of the companies that...
[September 30, 2002, 7:50]
Wi-Fi To Become Common Mobile Feature
News Converged Wi-Fi and VoIP phones are still a drop in the handset ocean this year - but don't rule them out as the next big thing yet, a new report has suggested. Revenue from Wi-Fi/VoIP handsets totalled $54.7m (£31.1m) last year with 130,000 units...
[July 21, 2005, 17:00]
Wi-Fi Phone Promises Seamless Switching
Talkback Is there any providers of just Wi-Fi phones without any of the complications of having to deal with the GSM interface at the handset level? I have a very large application for such a device. Oscar oscar@worlddata.com
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
HTC Touch Gets 3G, Loses Wi-Fi
Blog The company's just announced the sequel to the Touch (a.k.a.the iPh*ne-killer) and, interestingly, the new handset will have HSDPA (a new addition to the range) but - unlike the Touch - no Wi-Fi. Not that I'm wanting to harp on about public Wi-Fi's...
[August 30, 2007, 11:54]
Siemens Attacks Wi-Fi-only Phones
News What Smith did see as a possibility for the future, however, was a handset combining 3G connectivity with CAT-iq functionality. Handsets that offer only Wi-Fi connectivity have been a failure, according to the director of home and office...
[June 26, 2007, 15:18]
Wi-Fi Standards Face Patent Claim
News And many mobile handset makers are starting to introduce phones that can switch between Wi-Fi and cellular technology. T-Mobile just introduced the Dash, a so-called dual-mode handset, in the US this fall.
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
MmO2 To Roll Out Wi-Fi Across UK
News Mmo2 is also developing a mobile phone handset that doubles as a domestic phone, using Bluetooth to connect to the home's landline. The operator said it was planning to enable more than 1,000 Wi-Fi wireless LAN hotspots around the UK, as well as...
[July 2, 2003, 8:53]
Phone Giants Dial Up Wi-Fi Mobile
News While handset makers predict an early 2005 launch of the technology, Modoff and others expect it will take longer for these devices to get the full backing of many carriers. The companies have formed the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance in order...
[July 15, 2004, 10:35]
Nokia: Firms Hot On Wi-Fi, Cold On 3G
News It is about to be challenged by Vodafone, which will release details of its 3G handset range next Wednesday. Niininen explained that chief information officers and IT managers want their staff to use cellular GPRS networks when they are on the move...
[November 3, 2004, 16:38]
Chipmakers To Debut Low-power Wi-Fi
News Worldwide handset shipments in the second quarter grew 19.2 percent, to 118.3 million units, compared with the same period a year ago, according to research firm IDC. Chipmakers Broadcom and Philips Semiconductors are set to announce on Monday...
[September 8, 2003, 12:15]
Intel Calls The Shots For Next-gen Wi-Fi
News Several mobile-handset manufacturers, such as Nokia and Motorola, have not joined the Intel group because they believe that its specification is too PC-centric. As they often do when they're not happy with the way things are going, a collection of...
[October 13, 2005, 16:55]
BT Fusion Gets Wi-Fi Upgrade
News The idea of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services such as Fusion is that, when the mobile handset is in the office or home and thus sufficiently close to the user's broadband connection, it will route calls through that connection rather than...
[December 14, 2006, 12:49]
Motorola Launches Skype Alliance
News The world's Number three handset maker plans to add Internet phone software from Internet telephony provider Skype to a select number of Motorola phones that can link to the Internet using Wi-Fi. Interest in combination cell and VoIP phones is...
[February 15, 2005, 8:50]
BT Moves Into Smartphone Market
News Being dual-mode, the handset uses Wi-Fi when in the user's office or at a BT Openzone hotspot, and a cellular connection at other times. Speaking at the 3GSM mobile event in Barcelona, Seiche told ZDNet UK that BT will be integrating additional...
[February 13, 2007, 12:22]
CiceroPhone For Windows Mobile Smartphone review
Reviews We made calls at different times of the day but only used one handset, so we can't be sure whether the i-mate SP5m, Cicero Networks’ service or some other factor was the cause of our problems. Cicero Networks will need to map its call and end...
[December 15, 2005, 9:00]
Mini Wi-Fi Chip Fits In Mobiles
News Cetto said TI is talking with other handset makers, but he didn't provide details. But most of these chips are a notorious battery drain, making them difficult to sell to handset makers. Texas Instruments plans to unveil on Wednesday a new Wi-Fi...
[September 17, 2003, 17:20]
