Forgive the childish title. And the fact that this has been originally reported about a month ago. BUT since it isn't available yet, and probably won't be for some time, I still consider it's worth writing about.
This is one of those "doh" things. So you've got yourself a "multimedia computer". It has WiFi. Yet if you want to transfer files to your friends (phone-to-phone), you're stuck with using Bluetooth, which, even in it's current 2.0 EDR form, still features quite limited speeds. Which is fine if you're transferring ~1MB files, but what if you'd like to be able to directly transfer larger files? It would take ages using Bluetooth.
Apparently, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the organization that supervises the standard, have finally got this. And they've also come up with a very nifty solution for the above use-case. It's called "alternate MAC/PHY". What does it do? Well, if you're transferring small files, your phone will do that via Bluetooth, as before. But if you're transferring large files, or a large number of files, and both phones have WiFi chips, it will connect using WiFi. And since the maximum speed of the 802.11 standard (WiFi) is a lot higher than that of Bluetooth, you surely get the point...it will take less time.
Brilliant! I wonder why no one has thought of this before.
Full press release here.
[Source: Symbian Web Blog]
Bluetooth + WiFi = Love
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