Q9h Wifi Real(Released in 4th Quarter of '08)

[sniffs]

Originally Posted by Dast

They didn't build it in because with wifi, you could, in theory, make VOIP calls and avoid having to use carrier minutes. You can see the obvious conflict of interest here.

You can do that with any WIFI phone.. Even if they had put it in the q9h, there's 2 dozen other phones with WIFI

Hell, the ATT Tilt has wifi..

[Dast]

Originally Posted by sniffs

You can do that with any WIFI phone.. Even if they had put it in the q9h, there's 2 dozen other phones with WIFI

Hell, the ATT Tilt has wifi..

Very true... I can't say I fully agree with the justification, but that is the standard answer one usually hears about why certain phones don't do wifi.

My guess is the real reason the Q9H doesn't support wifi is the cost. A wifi IC that costs $3 doesn't seem like much, but when you multiply it by thousands and thousands of phones, it adds up to a lot. Plus, when adding a big feature like, it can take a lot of time to get the hardware/software just right and fully tested.

Just my 2 cents.

[Razor1973]

But didn't mexiken say that he knew without a doubt that out Q 9h's were WiFi capable, at least hardware wise? I can't believe I've read 20 pages and come to this.

[Dast]

Originally Posted by Razor1973

But didn't mexiken say that he knew without a doubt that out Q 9h's were WiFi capable, at least hardware wise? I can't believe I've read 20 pages and come to this.

I dont think, with all of the info from mexiken and others, that we can say blanketly that all q 9h phones are just a software update away from having wifi. I do believe a case can be made that *some* versions of the 9h, clearly a very small minority of them, did have wifi. I have yet to see any confermation on what claims may have been made regarding the schematics. I pmed mexiken to get a copy of any schematics he may have so i can answer the question myself. To date, mexiken hasn't responded.

The only other thing i can say for sure is that the core used in the 9h supports a wifi interface. However, it requires another chip that motorola probably didnt include.