Motorola and NEC are co developing a WiFi cellphone:When used inside an office, the phones tap into a Wi-Fi wireless network to make calls that travel, in part, over the Web rather than over a telephone network. 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. This is a must have feature for my dream mobile device (although I don't care as much about voice - I just want the data connection to use WiFi if possible, but then fall back on some cellular data connection (like GRPS) if there is no WiFi network available.)
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- jim 8-06-2003 5:03 pm