JoikuSpot turns your S60 phone into a WiFi hotspot

I know, I know. This has been available for a while now, however only the newest version (1.2), released a few days ago, features WEP encryption. The lack of any kind of encryption in previous versions made me not mention this app before. It just would have felt weird, encouraging you to download an app that creates a totally unprotected WiFi hotspot from your phone's 3G (hopefully), EDGE or GPRS connection. Anyone in your proximity could have connected to the hotspot you created, and easily browse away on your (probably expensive, if you're not in the US) mobile data plan. You being the one to pay the bill. No, no, no. Not me.

Anyway, this is a very interesting idea and it's still under development. Keep in mind that at this time you can only browse on http and https protocols, IMAP and ftp, for example, don't work. Yes there is WEP encryption, but hopefully future versions will also feature WPA (which is a way more advanced encryption standard).

Also with v1.2 came the announcement that in the future there will be two different variations of the software, namely JoikuSpot Light (free) and JoikuSpot Premium (which will not be free and supposedly will have more advanced features).

Click here for more information and to download JoikuSpot Light Beta v1.2

[Source: Symbian Guru]

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