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WalkingHotspot now live and ready to use

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

I’m pleased to see that WalkingHotSpot is now live. It was back in April that I used the beta version of WalkingHotSpot to post a few blogs using my mobile data connection and my laptop.
I really like the utility of being able to get a WiFi connection from my handset — ... Continue reading »

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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    This is great - but one problem with the N95 especially is the battery life when using 3G and WiFi together is horrible. It is very easy to drain a full battery. Make sure you have some means of charging your phone to hand!

    K
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  • Ewan

    10 months ago

    Is it as bad as your iPhone battery? ;)

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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    I'm not stupid enough to own an iPhone ;)
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  • David Carrington

    10 months ago

    Windows Mobile seems leagues ahead in this department. The built-in Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) tool already lets you bring your mobile connection to either Bluetooth or USB. With some tweaking it can also bring it to wifi. Developer-made "ICS Control" takes this one step further by letting you connect up almost any connection on the device: wifi to bluetooth, bluetooth to USB, 3G to wifi, almost anything.

    It's missing the built in USB driver from the Skypephone though.
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  • Mike42

    10 months ago

    Same functionality. Different name.

    Sooooo......$25 per year, or Joiku's €15 for a lifetime.

    Hmmmmm.......

    Taxi for understand your market & competitors / price-point FAIL please!
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