On October 17, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, smuggled phones running WP7 cannot connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks. This means that if users want to use Windows smuggled phones to connect to Wi-Fi, they must set their home network as visible. WP7 is the newly announced smart smuggled phone platform by the standard citizen side, and this platform integrates various online services. Therefore, this smuggled phone needs faster Wi-Fi connections to ensure high-speed data transmission.
However, in early tests, it was found that the only way to connect WP7 to a Wi-Fi network is to let the smuggled phone search for available networks and then choose from these networks.
Oded Ran, Microsoft's market director for WP in the UK, has confirmed this flaw in WP7.
Wi-Fi networks are sometimes configured not to broadcast their network names or SSIDs automatically. Although this method doesn't offer much in terms of security, it can indeed prevent irrelevant people from discovering these networks. This practice is very common in enterprise environments.
In Windows PCs and most smart smuggled phone platforms, users can connect to hidden networks by manually providing the network name and password, but WP7 does not support this method.
Microsoft's solution is simple: make the network visible. They believe that hidden networks do not help with security, and real security measures should involve encrypting the network.
If the sales volume of WP7 smuggled phones is as large as Apple's iPhone, IT departments may receive a large number of complaints from farmers about the issue.