Imagine your sitting on the bus, train, or at the DMV and your bored out of your mind. You want to bust out your iTouch or Playstation Portable cuz your Nseries or Eseries just isn't enough for you. But your limited to what you can do because theres no Wifi connection available. Connecting to the internet and browsing the Web is impossible without a hotspot.
Not with JoikuSpot. This amazing and free application for your Nokia S60 phone allows you to share your internet connection and transform it into a Wifi hotspot. So once you have this application running on your phone, another device can find it and see it as a WLAN connection and use it. This great idea just furthers my anger for the lack of 3g support here in the United States. We still have to rely on an Edge connection.
Here is a video of JoikuSpot being used with the iPhone. The internet looks really slow in this video and I can assure it's not that slow. Something must've been wrong with the connection, but either way he got it to work...
How it works...
JoikuSpot software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops and iPods can establish instant and fast wireless internet connection via smartphone's JoikuSpot access point using phone's own 3G internet connection. Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.
New in this release...
-Encryption support with WEP including automatic 128bit key generator
-Battery threshold shutting down the client when battery level is too low (adjustable)
-Default Access point can be set-Support for secure SSH tunnels with Putty
-90 days free trial. JoikuSpot Light will stay FREE also in the future. We shall later on introduce new Premium version with small payment. Naturally Premium will include even more advanced features.
As you can see from the screenshot above of my home laptop I managed to connect to JoikuSpot with my N82. Once I fired up the program my laptop found the connection pretty fast. Everything connected fine, but once I started using the connection on my laptop it would drop after about 4 minutes. Really odd, but I know this application is still in beta so these types of things are expected. The internet speeds were just what you'd expect from an Edge connection. Not slow but not fast.
Make sure you have an unlimited data package with your carrier because this application uses a ton of data.
Click here to download JaikuSpot for your S60 wifi enabled handset.
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