I have 3 Bluetooth phones in my family...2 different sonys, and a moto. None of which have wi-fi. I also have a Bluetooth dongle for my desktop, but no wi-fi.
I hate being in the minority all the time! I wish I could be like everyone else and have both!
No Kip you're wrong. Pretty much every current phone aside from the absolute cheapest ones have Bluetooth (and every mid-range phone for the past 5 years). Only smartphones and some new high-end dumbphones have WiFi.
Also I never got the Wi-fi craze. What would I use it for. Maybe it's more an american thing where you have slow, dreadful 3G coverage?
"Also I never got the Wi-fi craze. What would I use it for. Maybe it's more an american thing where you have slow, dreadful 3G coverage?"
Or maybe it's a New Zealand thing where data costs you hand, foot, torso, and then some... Many a teenager have been reprimanded by shocked parents who receive mobile bills in the range of thousands of dollars because their poor teenager thought that mobile internet costs around the same as ADSL...
OTOH, I've always wondered why there are so many apps for WinMo that required a data connection instead of being usable offline (GPS maps, RSS aggregators..).. is data in America free or something?
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"since most Bluetooth-capable devices also have WiFi radios"
What. What. What. How could anyone even believe this is true.
I have 3 Bluetooth phones in my family...2 different sonys, and a moto. None of which have wi-fi. I also have a Bluetooth dongle for my desktop, but no wi-fi.
I hate being in the minority all the time! I wish I could be like everyone else and have both!
I think the author meant bluetooth capable phones have wifi.
I mean seriously, you'd have to be pretty stupid to buy a phone in 2009 that didn't have wifi. Nokia's have done it for years
No Kip you're wrong. Pretty much every current phone aside from the absolute cheapest ones have Bluetooth (and every mid-range phone for the past 5 years). Only smartphones and some new high-end dumbphones have WiFi.
Also I never got the Wi-fi craze. What would I use it for. Maybe it's more an american thing where you have slow, dreadful 3G coverage?
@ greenlight
"Also I never got the Wi-fi craze. What would I use it for. Maybe it's more an american thing where you have slow, dreadful 3G coverage?"
Or maybe it's a New Zealand thing where data costs you hand, foot, torso, and then some... Many a teenager have been reprimanded by shocked parents who receive mobile bills in the range of thousands of dollars because their poor teenager thought that mobile internet costs around the same as ADSL...
OTOH, I've always wondered why there are so many apps for WinMo that required a data connection instead of being usable offline (GPS maps, RSS aggregators..).. is data in America free or something?