Further, nearly all modern smartphones integrate Wi-Fi and Global Positioning System (GPS). Later, the active Nintendo DS and Sony PSP enthusiast communities gained Wi-Fi abilities on these devices. Advances include computers with integrated Wi-Fi, rather than CompactFlash (CF) or PC Card (PCMCIA) add-in cards in computers such as Dell Axim, Compaq iPAQ and Toshiba pocket computers starting in 2002. Technology advances and developments in the early 2000s expanded the extent of this practice. Consequently, handheld devices such as pocket computers, which can perform such tasks while users are walking or standing, have dominated this practice. The disadvantages of this method are slower speed of travel (but leading to discovery of more infrequently discovered networks) and the absence of a convenient computing environment. Warwalking, or warjogging, is similar to wardriving, but is done on foot rather than from a moving vehicle.

This practice is sometimes facilitated by mounting a Wi-Fi enabled device on the vehicle.

Warbiking or warcycling is similar to wardriving, but is done from a moving bicycle or motorcycle. War dialing consists of dialing every phone number in a specific sequence in search of modems. War driving originated from wardialing, a method popularized by a character played by Matthew Broderick in the film WarGames, and named after that film.

Warbiking, warcycling, warwalking and similar use the same approach but with other modes of transportation.

Software for wardriving is freely available on the internet. Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks, usually from a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone.

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