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Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

tonybravo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:23:14 -0000

That's where Bluetooth low energy comes in.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Dexter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:46:33 -0000

Bluetooth is draining the battery on most portable devices I have. It's a pain to remember to activate it and synchronize it every time you want to use it. My cell phone is Wifi capable but shortens the battery life. In the end the revolution should come from a long life battery. Then we can take advantage of cableless technologies...

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Joe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:29:41 -0000

Because they can sell you a 6' cable for 12 times more than a 6" cable and the extra 5.5' of cable only cost them an additional $0.02

;-)

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Erwinn — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:16:43 -0000

Didn't we know this already quite a while of the normal Nintendo DS...

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Jaryd Madlena — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:44:14 -0000

The way I understand Wi-Fi Direct is that it is like an ad hoc network, but no device is acting as the hub. If I want to do an ad hoc network, I create one, and then others participate in it. But in a Wi-Fi Direct network every device participates equally, and with zero-configuration.

That's my take on it at least.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

jimcalabrese — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:27:59 -0000

Anything that reduces the rat nests of cables behind my desktop or home theater would be welcome. Hopefully, WiFi Direct will have a better adoption rate than Bluetooth.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

SyndicatedMaps.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:02 -0000

Can you imagine a wireless mesh network of cell phones and no cell towers? A P2P wireless mesh cellular network would work great on the 405 freeway in LA.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

J suther — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:37:36 -0000

its already on the go before end of 2009 ! take a look at Goomeo.com

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

adzeds — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:56:40 -0000

This looks like an amazing development!

Can't wait to see what cool gadgets come out as a result!

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Digital Web — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:54:24 -0000

Wow
I also saw Wireless Electricity to charge ur mobile and laptop.... in TED Talk
http://bit.ly/JDWWB

Suresh.ks

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Nikolay Kolev — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:24:50 -0000

This makes sense only on the go. I don't want to be taking pictures with my phone - I have a good digital camera for that purpose. With either Bluetooth, or WiFi Direct, my camera should be able to directly upload photos to my phone, which will then upload them to Flickr adding geolocation to them (my camera has a GPS built-in, it's Nikon P6000, but it drains the battery and it doesn't work most of the time). Another option is my phone to poll my camera periodically to see if there are new pictures, but this will be less energy efficient.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

d3bruts1d — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:57:12 -0000

I was trying to figure out what the big deal was. Sounded identical to Ad-Hoc connections.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

zjbow — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:49:58 -0000

Doesn't this already exist in the form Ad-Hoc networks? So this is really just a SW upgrade for 802.11x ?

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Jonathon Levey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:53:38 -0000

It's not exactly new technology. The PSP-1000 came out with this built-in. And the iPhone already does it too. Although as a standard, it would be handy.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Jerry Zambrano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:46:30 -0000

Very good information, especially given that security is always a concern for me.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Anon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:39:32 -0000

I was moving my home entertainment system the other night for a home improvement project, and as I was labeling and dissecting the maze of wires I couldn't help but imagine that sometime in the near future we would arrive at a totally wireless solution for TVs, Blu-ray, surround sound, etc. Why is it they only make six foot cables to go six inches?

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Daniel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:38:40 -0000

I'm so excited about this! It's been needed for a while now. I can't wait to see the innovation!

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Bob — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:38:09 -0000

YAWN. This is all possibly today with Bluetooth, and is not widely available because manufacturers are so concerned over control of their hardware they intentionally cripple this functionality. My PC has bluetooth, my iphone has bluetooth, why the #($%* can't I sync my iphone over bluetooth? Because apple exerts ultimate control over the hardware. I don't see how a new wireless standard (which really isn't new, it just replaces ad-hoc wireless networks, with are already NOT used today) will change anything.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

gerald miller — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:37:30 -0000

Could be a real stimulus package.Looking forward to this.
ger

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Jerry Zambrano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:36:56 -0000

It sounds like a revolutionary break through in communications (WiFi et.al.) I'm not up to date with WiFi standards, but I'd be more concerned with security issues. Not too long ago, I was able to access blue-tooth devices as well as Blackberry phones. All inadvertently of course. This having been said, as a network (physical not wireless) professional, I hope this means a need for network engineers to collaborate for security purposes (increased jobs in today's market).

Here's looking towards 2010...

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Fays — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:36:42 -0000

Hum, that is nothing new on a functionality level. That was called Wifi Ad hoc: http://bit.ly/29FuC7 :)

The only thing that will change is that, it'll be available on more devices as their Wifi adapters will adopt this new way of establishing Ad-hoc connections.

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Ediciuz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:32:43 -0000

Why not, doesn't everybody want a Wi-Fi mouse?

Re: Wireless Revolution: Wi-Fi Between Devices Coming in 2010

Adam Stoner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:30:46 -0000

Still guessing it's not going to be as wide spread as Bluetooth... at least for a while anyway.