{"id":485,"date":"2006-10-24T17:50:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=485"},"modified":"2006-10-24T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T15:50:49","slug":"the-current-state-of-wifi-in-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"The Current State of WiFi in Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My blog is not a blog of links, but a blog of my ideas and activities as a company builder.  Still, I just read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/read_article.aspx?id=17649&#038;ch=infotech\">article at the Technology Review<\/a> that Bob Stumpel, our FONero leader in the Netherlands, sent to me and it is right on the state of WiFi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Truphone.com\">Truphone<\/a> is especially interesting.  And so is this announcement by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/24\/technology\/24mobile.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">T Mobile<\/a> in the States whereby dual wifi gsm phones will connect for free in their hotspots mostly at Starbucks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=485\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog is not a blog of links, but a blog of my ideas and activities as a company builder. Still, I just read this article at the Technology Review that Bob Stumpel, our FONero leader in the Netherlands, sent to me and it is right on the state of WiFi. Truphone is especially interesting. 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