Wi-Fi in Your Cellphone (WiFiFone?)
Kirt's Cogitations™ #130

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Wi-Fi in Your Cellphone (WiFiFone?)

Move over GPRS and 3G cell phones, Wi-Fi has arrived. In fact Wi-Fi is the fastest growing segment of wireless connectivity. Adding to the growing ubiquity of 802.11 access points throughout the world, Starbucks™ has already configured 1,200 of its popular retail Cafes with wireless Internet capability. They plan to have 2,000 by the end of this year. The August 2002 edition of "Microwaves & RF" magazine features a sort of modern Norman Rockwell rendition of what such an establishment is looking like (compliments of RFMD). It's truly an RF Cafe! Say, maybe this domain name will fetch big bucks some day when the economic downturn finally goes away!

Werbel Microwave power dividers, couplers - RF Cafe Website

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...