Regardless the ever reducing time span from drawing board to production line - the recent pace in which WiFi enabled handhelds seeing the light of day is breath taking. Some like the Meizu MiniOne might have had some last minute changes to get the same come close to the hyped looks of the iPhone, but it becomes ever clearer that WiFi enabled devices designed to roam are going mainstream later this year.

Now desirable physical devices are important for all network providers to keep and possibly increase the number of subscribers, but what happens with the challanger to the big network services? Boingo has announced the first designated WiFi service for Mobile Phones world wide this month. Fon with its interesting business give-and-take model is gaining ground if only becoming very attractive to BT and Skype. Looks like that the big ones should better start dotting a couple more hotspots - as if that would help.