Saturday, April 16, 2005
UMA Promises Seamless Wifi & Cellular Connections on Mobiles
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "NEWS" @ 12:00 AM
"It's one thing to have a mobile phone which offers either cellular or Wi-Fi connexions as options. It's another to produce a handset that can 'hand over' from one to the other. According to testing house, Anite, such phones will be ready for testing by Q3 2005. If you're making a voice call or mid-way through a download session using a mobile phone and a Wi-Fi connexion what happens if you move out of the hotspot? Currently, you'd have to drop the session and start again over cellular. Not with UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), though."
This sounds promising. It's good to see a move toward seamless simplicity for multiple mobile data connections. As I get older I increasingly want thing to just *work* without fiddling. Ah, for the Elegance of Simplicity....
This sounds promising. It's good to see a move toward seamless simplicity for multiple mobile data connections. As I get older I increasingly want thing to just *work* without fiddling. Ah, for the Elegance of Simplicity....
