Mini Wi-Fi Chip Fits In Mobiles
News Outside the Wi-Fi network's 300-foot range, the handsets switch calls automatically to a cellular network, which offers the same data features and voice calling, but at much slower speeds. Texas Instruments plans to unveil on Wednesday a new Wi-Fi...
[September 17, 2003, 17:20]
Wi-Fi: Coming Soon On Board US Planes?
News But offering Wi-Fi service also means that air travelers could use voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones and applications like Skype to make voice calls - a development sure to vex seatmates. Air travelers starved for in-flight Internet access...
[June 6, 2006, 11:05]
Wi-Fi Week: Where Are The Standards?
News Key industry groups are laying the groundwork for a new generation of Wi-Fi standards with improved security and voice-over-IP capabilities It's a nice thought that every Wi-Fi wireless card will work with every Wi-Fi network.
[January 28, 2004, 11:55]
Meru Claims First European 802.11n Campus
News The school plans to use both Wi-Fi frequencies, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and it will add voice to the predominantly data-oriented network in due course, said Ericson. Meru Networks, a small Wi-Fi vendor, has claimed to have beaten behemoth Cisco to the Wi...
[November 27, 2007, 15:11]
The Future Of Wireless review
Reviews Other changes coming to Wi-Fi will include ways to make it more secure and more dependable. But that wasn't good enough for the Wi-Fi faithful. The next Wi-Fi speed standard, 802.11n, will likely offer a bandwidth of around 108Mbps.
[March 10, 2004, 6:55]
HP IPAQ Rw6815 Personal Messenger review
Reviews With infrared, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi all integrated, the iPAQ rw6815 Personal Messenger would seem to have the full range of wireless communications options. Unfortunately, though, the Wi-Fi connection is the 11Mbps 802.11b standard, rather than the...
[January 8, 2007, 13:46]
Sony Ericsson GC79 review
Reviews This lets network operators bill for Wi-Fi hotspot usage via their GSM network billing system. At the moment it can be a bit of a palaver to access a ‘pay-for’ Wi-Fi hotspot. However, with EAP SIM-enabled devices running on EAP-SIM-compliant...
[November 14, 2003, 15:00]
Orange SPV M5000 review
Reviews It's unfortunate that the Wi-Fi connection is only 11Mbps 802.11b. Orange also provides an icon for controlling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings -- we’d have liked a control for often-ignored but still useful infrared here too.
[October 17, 2005, 13:15]
Redmond Seeks Wireless Upgrade
News Pandey said Microsoft is seeking gear that will support all of the current flavors of Wi-Fi: 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a. The result, he said, was the improved handling of Wi-Fi that came with Windows XP.
[December 10, 2004, 11:55]
Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX N520 review
Reviews Wi-Fi is provided in the shape of 54Mbps 802.11g, which is a rarity on handhelds, and a feature we're not convinced is required. A short press on this button starts the built-in voice notes software, while a longer press fires up FSC SpeedMenu, a...
[January 23, 2006, 15:20]
Win An Orange SPV E650 review
Reviews Business users will like being able to access work email and the internet via 802.11g Wi-Fi. The quad-band GSM phone has full support for linking up to GPRS and Edge networks for voice calls and data transfers.
[December 19, 2007, 16:35]
Wireless Voice Pioneer Finally Embraces 802.11g
News SpectraLink already produces white-labelled Wi-Fi phones which are sold by the likes of Nortel and Avaya. SpectraLink, the pioneer of wireless voice phone systems, has finally extended its capabilities to support high-speed wireless LANs.
[January 4, 2007, 11:16]
Nokia E61 review
Reviews Infrared, Bluetooth (1.2) and Wi-Fi (802.11g) are all present, and you can use Bluetooth for local synchronisation and file sharing if you prefer this to a cable connection. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and infrared mean that all local wireless connectivity...
[June 19, 2006, 18:35]
