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Podcast Episode 13

Monday, July 14th, 2008

This week we talk about unlimited drinks Dublin, review the kit that the mobile geek at Glastonbury used (that’s James by the way), talk about Flirtomatic’s move into the German market, Ewan’s ‘mobile hell hole post’ and our favourite new things in the regular ‘things of the week’ slot.

…oh and one other thing too… what was that now…?

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The contributors:

Ewan MacLeod is turning off Motorola RAZRs and burning phone holsters he is SMS Text News.
James Whatley’s blog is here. He works for SpinVox doing clever social media stuff and their blog.
Dan Lane’s blog is at http://invalid.name. He’s CTO at Howler Tech.
Ben Smith is a management consultant. He has a blog, but anything worth reading is contributed here.

Sites mentioned in the podcast:

People we met at Unlimited Drinks Dublin:

Paschal from Mobile Travel Technologies
Connor from Connector.ie
Dave from Just Routes
Russel from Vodafone – watch this space for news of his project.

Flirtomatic

James’s Mobile Geek at Glastonbury post

Ewan’s Mobile Hell Hole post

Things of the week:

Orange’s N82
The new QIK client
The Loc8tor ’stuff finder’
JoikuSpot Premium

We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast – please let us know in the comments or tell Ewan – ewan@smstextnews.com.

First Look: JoikuSpot Premium

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Joikuspot premiumJoikuSpot is a clever little application that lets you turn your S60 phone into a WiFi hotspot allowing other devices to use data via your phone’s 3G data connection.  It’s been available in beta and then in ‘light‘ form for some time now providing a limited feature set (missing WiFi encryption or support for protocols other than web browsing),  but yesterday JoikuSpot Premium was launched filling all the gaps.  I’ve had a quick look…

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There’s a feature list for JoikuSpot Premium here for full details, but suffice it to say I am writing this on a Mac, next to me is a PC and an iPhone and they are all simultaneously using the 3G connection from my E61 via Three.  And get this… the PC is connected to my employer’s corporate network via a VPN!  Across the 3 machines I have IMAP mail, web browsing, VPN, Outlook (connected to an Exchange server) and an IM client connected to all the major networks. All at the same time!  Wow!

joikuspot_vpnSo far it’s been rock solid (one re-start of my web browsers required to get them to pick-up the new connection) and boom… online.  30 minutes uninterrupted so far. The E61 only supports 3G, but with a 3.5G device this would really fly (not that performance isn’t excellent now).  The only downside (predictably) is that it munches battery – have a charger available or use a Proporta for a running top-up as I am doing.

And to cap it all there’s a sale on or the first month… 40% off so JoikuSpot Premium is only €15.  A bargain – I’ve bought my own copy just now.

Run, don’t walk, here and buy it for yourself… or test the free ‘light’ version for yourself first.  There’s a white-label version for network types who want to brand it up.

Did I mention it rocks?


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