The demand for mobile internet access everywhere led to the wifi hotspots sprouting about in cities like mushrooms on the ground. Coffee shops, snack bars, and even convenience stores are considered as incomplete or substandard if they cannot provide wifi access to their clients. And why shouldn’t they? Those establishments mentioned, take a look at the clientele list. You’ve got students who study and research while sipping coffee, eating nuts, cookies and all sorts of snacks. You’ve got foreign travelers and visitors who bring with them mobile computers on their trips. You also have business men and women, who treat the internet as their virtual office; hence they need internet access anytime anywhere. As a result, there was also an increase in the number of wifi devices manufactured and sold, like mobile phones with wifi.
Used to be, phones with wifi were not only considered a luxury, but even impractical for some people. The idea of surfing the internet, checking news and email using your phone’s numeric keypad seemed too cumbersome and difficult. As wifi hotspots became more common and demand for mobile phones with wifi grew, it led to many innovations in mobile phone design. Now, the qwerty keypad became a standard feature for wifi ready mobile phones and PDAs. Also, phones with wifi now had bigger and brighter screens to allow ease in viewing online content and also higher screen resolutions when compared to other cellular phones.