{"id":1163,"date":"2008-03-31T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/joikuspot-a-cool-little-hotspot.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T19:07:07","slug":"joikuspot-a-cool-little-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"JoikuSpot a cool little hotspot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block; float: right\"><span style=\"margin: 1em 0pt 0pt; display: block\"><\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2243614857_2ba59b372a_o.png\" alt=\"2243614857_2ba59b372a_o.png\" align=\"right\" height=\"243\" width=\"182\" \/>I&#8217;ve always wondered if there was a way to make a WiFi hotspot out of a smartphone. Now there is and it&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joiku.com\/?action=products&amp;mode=productDetails&amp;product_id=310\">JoikuSpot<\/a>. This small application can run on many smartphones with WiFi (like the N95 or E61) and allow you to share your 3G connections with others around you, or simply to provide connectivity to any WiFi device like the iPod Touch or Nintendo DS.  To me this is one further proof that what people want is WiFi, not 3G.  <\/p>\n<p>Once you have installed the app you can quickly start a connection and your phone becomes an access point, with an open WiFi signal to which you can connect using your laptop or other devices. It&#8217;s faster and easier then sharing a connection via Bluetooth!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joiku.com\/?action=products&amp;mode=productDetails&amp;product_id=310\">JoikuSpot<\/a> is still in beta, but FON is already in talks with the guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joikusoft.fi\/\">JoikuSoft<\/a> to provide Foneros with a Fon enabled version of their software so if you want to share but limit the bandwidth you share or charge for it, or only share with Foneros, you can.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1163\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered if there was a way to make a WiFi hotspot out of a smartphone. Now there is and it&#8217;s called JoikuSpot. This small application can run on many smartphones with WiFi (like the N95 or E61) and allow you to share your 3G connections with others around you, or simply to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}