June 9, 2009 -- 

A long-time TidBITS reader was twittering yesterday about feeling frustrated with the iPhone still lacking 802.11n, because he wanted to connect his iPhone to an 802.11n-only home network. Glenn Fleishman twittered back with a link to an article Does the iPhone Need 802.11n? that Glenn wrote for the Wi-Fi Net News Web site. The article explains likely reasons why Apple chose not to include 802.11n in the iPhone and speculates that an upcoming single-stream 802.11n technology might find its way into the iPhone and similar devices.

—Tonya Engst