The Fonera 2.0 now with BitTorrent, Flickr, Rapidshare, Youtube, Vodafone and more
In the video at the bottom I show the main features of the Fonera 2.0, our new social router that is being manufactured in China and for which we are already accepting reservations in our online shop. Initially we’re going to price it €49 (around 66$). The Fonera 2.0 not only lets you share some of your bandwidth at home, make money with your WiFi connection and roam the world for free, it also lets you manage your storage, backup, uploading and downloading activities and connect your HSDPA or 3G USB Dongle and emit WiFi. More details.
With the Fonera 2.0 you can:
- backup your files
- download files from BitTorrent to your hard drive without a PC
- download files from Rapidshare and Megaupload without a PC
- upload videos to Youtube from any USB pen drive, without you having to use your PC. We’ll soon add support for Picasa and Flickr.
- share a printer or access a remote webcam using WiFi and your Fonera
- access, manage and share a hard drive via WiFi
-upload tons of pictures at once to Flickr without needing to have your laptop. You just put the pictures in a pen drive in a folder named Flickr and the Fonera recognizes it and sends your pictures to Flickr.
-connect your HSDPA or 3G USB dongle from most 3G providers in the world and emit WiFi. As you know the biggest problem with 3G is that is personal.
The main reason to use a Fonera 2.0 for your uploads and downloads is that you can have an inexpensive and small gadget do the work for you instead of having to keep your laptop or fixed PC on all the time to do the same operations. There are also significant environmental reasons. The Fonera 2.0 can let you save a lot of energy: a PC downloading/uploading to the Web uses around 40W, while the Fonera doing the same thing uses 6W.
The fact the Fonera is based on open source helps a great deal in growing apps that can be added to this first social and now smart wifi router. We invite developers to code any kind of application for it. We have a special developer-mode for them.
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Here´s an explanatory video in which I alternate in tone between being a sound reviewer of my product and sounding like rabid salesman.
Or one in Spanish that it´s slightly better.
And if you want to help us decide if we should stick to the Fonera 2.0 name or use another one here´s a poll to give us a hand.
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