| Apple Patent Application From the Register article about the Apple patent:
Interestingly, the filing also describes a scenario in which the initiating device can "extend internet access (eg Wi-Fi) to other wireless devices in the vicinity. For example, [the] mobile device... can be configured as a base station for one or more devices."
In other words, internet tethering - an iPhone Software 3.0 capability that AT&T has yet to implement for iPhone customers in the US.
Windows Mobile has the ability to act as a wireless router, and has had it for awhile now.
Unless there is some special radio in the IPhone, wouldn't any phone that can run multiple aps simultaneously do the same thing? My WinMo phone can surf the internet, and make and receive calls at the same time, so yheoritically it should be able to send info concurrently. |
