Wi-Fi Direct Gets Real With Product Certification

CWmike writes "Wi-Fi Direct officially became a concrete technology today, with several new laptop components certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. That threshold was reached before most people even understand what Wi-Fi Direct is, reports Matt Hamblen. Wi-Fi Direct is a new technology designed to allow peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between devices like smartphones and cameras without a traditional Wi-Fi network or the need for Wi-Fi access points. This means that a camera with Wi-Fi Direct installed could communicate via Wi-Fi to a digital picture frame or printer, uploading picture data over the same range of existing Wi-Fi, about 200 yards at speeds of up to 250Mbit/sec, said Wi-Fi Alliance CEO Edgar Figueroa. 'Imagine if two people were on a train and wanted to play a game in real time on their separate handhelds but had no cellular or Wi-Fi hot spot. They still could play with Wi-Fi Direct,' he said."

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[Khyber]

"Bluetooth is just a mess, it didn't work correctly with Windows XP at the time"

Again, tell that to my peripherals, now including a Bluetooth printer. That computer runs XP, because Vista had a GARBAGE implementation. I don't have bluetooth on this 7 laptop so I can't speak for it, but what you state for XP has not been true for the easy 15 or so peripherals I've used.

Blame Canonical and Apple for not following the Bluetooth standard properly.