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Can I take something like the new Apple Airport Express and just cable an ethernet connection to it and have instant WiFi for the new phone? Would it really be that easy?
Can I take something like the new Apple Airport Express and just cable an ethernet connection to it and have instant WiFi for the new phone? Would it really be that easy?
I would hope so! I have Airport Extreme and would enjoy the untethered freedom with this phone! Plus, I think this should work in "Hotspots" around the city. That would be great! -Jess
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Of the 6100 exhibitors at CeBIT this year in Hannover, Germany, I spoke with 8 or 10 companies working on dual-mode wifi/cellular phones. The UTStarcom Wifon was being shown around and looked very nice.
The biggest technical hurdle for high-volume wifi phone deployment is still the chipset/DSP/wifi-radio integration. It is an ongoing development at the moment which will solve the power consumption issues and bring MPEG processing on board.
With these improvements, the dual-mode wifi/cellualar phones will offer more robust features, but with a price (US$400). The standard wifi-only handset is still hovering around US$200, however several manufacturers at CeBIT were promoting a $150 Wifon with very nice firmware and a SIM card reader.
The coolest product launched at CeBIT (aside from the $20 cigarette lighter MP3 players) was the WiFi SIP/Video Phone. It is a full-featured open standards IP/PBX desk phone with integrated camera and 7-inch touch-sensitive flat panel display. The phone speaks SIP and IAX and
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