Press release
5/2/2008 Barcelona, Spain
Joikusoft Oy Ltd. today announces JoikuSpot, a free mobile software solution that turns a Symbian S60 Smartphone to a Wi-Fi HotSpot.
According to the Joikusoft Oy Founder and CEO Mr. Lasse Maki “Internet should be easily and cost-efficiently accessible everywhere, and Joikusoft aims to enable that with the JoikuSpot innovation.”
JoikuSpot enables S60 Smartphone to share it’s 3G internet connection wirelessly over WLAN with any compatible WLAN device such as laptop, other Smartphone or e.g. Apple iPod touch. Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.
JoikuSpot is easy. When turned on, external WLAN devices can discover the open JoikuSpot and establish internet connection wirelessly using the mobile phone’s 3G internet connection.
JoikuSpot saves money. JoikuSpot can be downloaded for free at www.joikuspot.com. JoikuSpot users may consider whether they need a physical internet connection at all (e.g. ADSL) in certain remote locations such as summer cottages or if they any more wish to pay for the costly internet services offered by many hotels, airports or conference centers. The most cost-efficient usage can be achieved with unlimited mobile data plans offered by many operators.
JoikuSpot adds productivity. JoikuSpot can offer internet service for instance while on a train or car.
JoikuSpot is fast. Compared to e.g. Bluetooth connection, WLAN connection is several times faster.
For operators and device manufacturers JoikuSpot presents a new type of a business opportunity. JoikuSpot encourages it’s users to upgrade their mobile data plans to faster and fixed monthly plans, and usage of JoikuSpot sizeably improves the user data ARPU.
JoikuSpot© is based on Joikusoft’s patent pending technology, and the limited beta version for Symbian OS unveiled today is called JoikuSpot Light.
Joikusoft launched a social web community www.joiku.com for free premium mobile software a
few months ago. Following this ideology of free premium software, JoikuSpot is made available for
free to the Joiku user community. In just few months Joiku has grown to hundreds of thousands
visitors worldwide. Joiku.com is based on Joikusoft’s SHADE1.0 platform.
