Your Phone as an IoT Hub

In GigaOM:   The implications?    " ... Broadcom’s new Wi-Fi chip turns your phone into an IoT hub ...  While our phones can use Wi-Fi to connect directly to other devices such as wearables or home appliances, they can’t do so while maintaining their own uninterrupted connection to a Wi-Fi router. This will solve that problem, which is becoming increasingly bigger as smartphones insert themselves into the internet of things. ... "