La Fonera is Here!
In this short video clip I announce that at Fon we launched the Fonera today in Europe and USA, Asia is coming soon.
If you can´t see the video, please try here
Interestingly this video was shot with a Nokia N80 (disclosure I am on Nokia´s Internet Board) and sent over wifi to a Fonera (disclosure I am the CEO of Fon) which automatically posted the clip in VPOD (disclosure I am an investor in Vpod.tv) which is then linked to my blog which is in Moveable Type (disclosure, two good friends of mine Loic Le Meur and Joichi Ito who are partners in Six Apart well known bloggers and members of the Japan and French Fon boards).
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Posted by Nadim Saad - September 18, 2006 3:24 pm - #
Hi Martín,
Congratulations on this new launch! It looks very sleek (saw it on the FON website)! I don’t know if it’s just my browser (IE) but I can’t see your video clip, could you please repost?
Nadim
PS: I don’t understand why you need to disclose all this while you’ve already disclosed it in your blog previously (but I’m sure you already check with your lawyer)
Posted by molgar - September 18, 2006 4:06 pm - #
5$/€ if you haven’t previously purchased a Linksys router from fon. If you have, it goes up to 50$/€ afaik.
Posted by greggles - September 18, 2006 5:38 pm - #
The video clip worked fine for me.
This is great news – having a WPA protected private side is a very nice feature.
Posted by jennifer - September 18, 2006 5:50 pm - #
It looks like a great product!
Posted by jeenio - September 18, 2006 5:56 pm - #
oh, darn, I JUST bought my linksys router! I could’ve waited a bit longer…
Posted by Computer Forums - September 18, 2006 10:43 pm - #
I purchased my Linksys router yesterday
Will the people with Linksys routers be able to get a firmware upgrade that supports the new features?
Posted by olivier2point0 - September 19, 2006 12:33 am - #
It looks good. It sounds good. You deal it @ a fair price. I m’in ; let’s start to rock our wifi access now !
Posted by Peter - September 19, 2006 7:04 am - #
Do you have any details on the product? Eg. is this a full-blown DSL-router with configurable firewall, port forwarding etc.? Which of 802.11 a/b/g/n does it support? Are public & private users in the same LAN address space (security…)? I’m sure many people would appreciate some technical details…
Posted by Juergen - September 19, 2006 7:35 pm - #
Unfortunately, the video sound does not play on Apple’s Safari browsers
Congratulations. Would be nice if you could post some specs of La Fonera.
Gracias,
Juergen
Posted by Harish Mallipeddi - September 19, 2006 11:49 pm - #
When are you going to ship to Singapore? I see that you do ship to Korea currently!
Posted by Eric N - September 20, 2006 11:11 pm - #
25$ for shipping? You’ve got to be fricking kidding me.
Good luck with this service. I’ll pass.
Posted by Hans-Peter Bock - September 21, 2006 2:53 pm - #
Hello Martin,
I have looked at the La Fonera in the webshop.
Where are these promised features?
* USB-Port
* BitTorrent-Client
And why does it only have one Ethernet-Port???
Best regards, Hans-Peter
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - September 22, 2006 7:56 pm - #
Hans-Peter,
We have not promised those features for La Fonera, it´s a confusion. Those are coming in the FON Liberator that will be released in December.
Regards,
Posted by Hans-Peter Bock - September 25, 2006 8:24 pm - #
Hello Martin,
aah, ok! Then I am looking forward to the FON Liberator!
Thank you for this information!
Best regards, Hans-peter
Posted by Pedro - October 4, 2006 12:58 pm - #
I recently bought a la fonera. Its great!
However, I’m in need of a linksys router because of the extra 4 ports. Does anyone want to exchange? If so, please contact me via bugamos@hotmail.com
Regards,
Pedro
Posted by J - November 16, 2006 1:37 am - #
could you also post the Google Homepage button on your website? Some of us don’t use Yahoo, but Google and Google Reader. Thanks.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - November 16, 2006 6:03 pm - #
Thanks J, we will do that!