The first applications to adopt Wi-Fi Direct include mobile PCs, mobile phones, and digital televisions (DTVs). These devices share a trait: they are the respective centers of the PC, CE, and mobile device clusters, and they ship in the hundreds of millions of devices annually. Wireless display of images and video is a major aim of Wi-Fi Direct, so the main display in most homes will be a key target. In-Stat's latest research report, Wi-Fi Direct: It's All About the Software, forecasts that by the year 2015 nearly 80 million DTVs will be Wi-Fi Direct-enabled.
Other details from the report include:
- Mobile PCs will adopt Wi-Fi Direct more quickly than any other application.
- Every PC, CE device and mobile phone that ships in 2014 with Wi-Fi silicon will be Wi-Fi Direct-enabled.
- Wi-Fi Direct-enabled device shipments will reach 173 million by 2011.
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