What's Next For Wireless Technology?

Wireless networks whether in the home or thebeing implemented. The Nintendo Wii can get
office have offered us mobility. No longer do youupdates via a WiFi network if you have one in
have to be tied to your desk for want of anyyour home. Some of the controllers that we see
longer network cable or to find a patch panel toon the Xbox and PlayStation are also now using
plug your Ethernet cable into. As I'm sure you arethis technology. There are other technologies that
aware most laptops nowadays will comes withare starting to also appear for example Bluray
built in wireless network cards. Although this wasplayers are starting to have WiFi built in which will
not always a standard and really only started toallow it to get firmware updates and also a
hit the market around 2002 it has now become apossibility to transmit the signal to your WiFi
built-in standard that we all come to expect.enabled television. It's been said that the
We now see in the use of this standard in moretechnology used in WiFi enabled HD TVs code be
and more everyday items for example yourin a billion consumer electronic devices by 2012.
mobile phone may actually come with WiFi built-in.But the fastest-growing areas for WiFi enables
We have seen the likes of Apple introduced thedevices is of course mobile phones as this is the
iPhone, which offers WiFi access and an easy tobiggest growth area we should start to see this
use touchscreen enabling Internet access to beappearing in most phones even lower end phones
simple and very easy to use. Many otherin the next couple of years. Although Bluetooth's
manufacturers have followed suit like Nokia,is also a wireless technology found on phones it
Samsung and Sony Ericsson.has a limited this is in work over compared to
Game consoles are another area we see WiFiWiFi.