The firm In-Stat is interested in the nature of devices that typically connect to WiFi hotspots available to technophiles in public places. A study reveals that the proportion of connections made via mobile device equipped with a WiFi antenna is increasingly high, both obviously mobile phones but also portable gaming for example.

Thus, over 1.2 billion connections to WiFi hotspots identified in the world this year (up 47% compared to 2008), 35% were made from a mobile terminal ... against only 20% last year. The remaining connections are made from a laptop. A division should continue to worsen as this trend puisqu'In-Stat predicts that by 2011, 50% of connections to WiFi hotspots will be conducted from a mobile terminal.

Of course, In-Stat said that the explosion in sales of smartphones in volume. Smartphones, which greatly facilitates the connection to these hotspots in relation to "FeaturePhone. But that's not all, In-Stat said that more and more mobile devices are WiFi compatible and can connect to these hotspots. This is where more and more cameras, media players, game consoles phones, etc.