2. Cellular and Wi-Fi

If there were a lot of combination cellular / WiFi products at CTIA, they sure were keeping a low profile. The handset manufacturers were focusing their cute little toys more on video, music and games and touting new models for 3G standards such as HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Data) that have yet to start U.S. rollout.

Some of the activity in this area is focused around UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access). UMA is a recent standard developed by Philps, Motorola, Ericsson and others to enable subscribers to roam and handover between GSM / GPRS cellular and unlicensed wireless networks using dual-mode mobile handsets.

Kineto Wireless didn't have any announcements at CTIA, having done most of them last month for the 3GSM show. But it was demonstrating its INC back-end controller and EMS software for UMA networks and UCP-100 UMA reference design phone (made by Chi Mei). Other UMA-enabled phones include BenQ's P50 Pocket PC phone, and