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A fact from Wi-Fi Direct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know
- ... that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to ease the task of setting up small Wi-Fi networks with their new Wi-Fi Direct standard?
A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/October.

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Direct vs. Ad-hoc?

Can somebody explain the difference between this and an ad-hoc network? It sounds like the same thing to me. DanielDPeterson (talk) 20:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ad-hoc requires one user to create an ad-hoc network, and the other user to join it. Wi-Fi Direct automates the process and creates more of a "turn it on and find others" user experience. Dataxpress (talk) 21:47, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. It seems like this article is light on technical understanding. It looks like this is an addon to the underlying data link layer. It seems to include some auto-configuration of devices, exchange of WPA keys? also apparently one device serves as an access point. (soft ap)

Mac OS X Lion?

Mac OS X Lion touts "AirDrop" as a new feature, which relies entirely on WiFi Direct. As it is one of the first major commercial releases of this technology, perhaps it could use a mention in this article? Dataxpress (talk) 21:48, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to this article AirDrop is not Wi-Fi Direct but something very similar. Can anyone confirm ? 1 Rockinrobstar (talk) 06:37, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to find this article which states that AirDrop uses a subset of Wi-Fi Direct features, and is based on it, but does not fully implement it. However, it does seem to be the first major use of the technology, despite not fully implementing it. 2 Dataxpress (talk) 05:41, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First w-fi direct device

Some LG phones, including Optimus Hub (E510) have Wi-Fi direct in 2.3.x, and definetely BEFORE Galaxy Nexus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.178.153.223 (talk) 21:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 Can somebody explain the difference between this and an ad-hoc network? It sounds like the same thing to me. [[User:DanielDPeterson|<span style="color:green">DanielDPeterson</span>]] ([[User_talk:DanielDPeterson|<span style="color:teal">talk</span>]]) 20:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 :Ad-hoc requires one user to create an ad-hoc network, and the other user to join it.  Wi-Fi Direct automates the process and creates more of a "turn it on and find others" user experience. [[User:Dataxpress|Dataxpress]] ([[User talk:Dataxpress|talk]]) 21:47, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
+Yeah. It seems like this article is light on technical understanding. It looks like this is an addon to the underlying data link layer. It seems to include some auto-configuration of devices, exchange of WPA keys? also apparently one device serves as an access point. (soft ap)
 == Mac OS X Lion? ==