Wireless communication…Wi Fi on its way to kill Bluetooth

Wireless communication is undergoing one of the greatest development and with the outcome; Bluetooth might become an outdated network technology of yesterday.
Starting 2010, gadgets will start interacting each other via Wi Fi Direct, without being connected to the wireless network.

The Wi Fi Alliance, an industry group, is working in that direction and putting together a Wi Fi Direct specification, a set of technical "rules" that guide consumer electronics companies that plan to add the new capability.
According to Kelly Davis-Felner, the Wi Fi Alliance's marketing director, said “Wi Fi Direct will make it easier to liberate the mounting gigabytes of digital family photos that are trapped in cameras, smart phones or PCs. Now those gadgets will be able to connect directly to digital photo frames, TVs or printers.”

Wi Fi Direct?

Wi Fi Direct will allow Wi Fi enabled devices such as mobiles, phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards, headphones and several similar gadgets to connect to other Wi Fi devices individually or to multiple devices at once.

Wi Fi Direct… is it really a Bluetooth plus?

Using the latest technology –
Communication will be much faster and will support standard Wi Fi data rates
Devices will be able to connect to one another within about 100 meters of each other, while Bluetooth is good only for a much shorter distance.
This would allow just about any device that has Wi Fi built into it to use wireless broadband instead of Bluetooth.

Technology behind…

With new specification in place, gadgets will turn into mini Wi Fi access point, which means that it could eliminate the need for home network Wi Fi router.

Future of the Wi Fi will remain under wraps until it reaches in the hands of real consumer, till that time I am enjoying listening music on my Bluetooth headset…