JoikuSpot turns your Symbian S60 phone into a WiFi hotspot

I posted a while back about WMWifiRouter for Windows Mobile devices which is a clever series of scripts/registry hacks bundled up into a neat little application that makes your WM phone act as a WiFi Access Point. Its a very clever piece of software and if it wasn't for the absolutely atrocious battery life that I had on my last Windows Mobile phone (HTC Hermes), I may have found it quite useful.

Now the battery life on my Nokia E90 Communicator is amazing, even with Bluetooth and WiFi on all day and the occasional hour of GPS use in a day I can still often put my phone on charge in the evening with it still reporting fully charged! Of course its lying but the battery life is fantastic. I have never run out of battery in a day. Its sharp contrast to my HTC Hermes which would last about an hour with WiFi on.

So what about the E90, is there something similar for Symbian S60? Yes! Now there is! A piece of freeware called JoikuSpot claims to do exactly the same thing!

Unfortunately in my testing the software crashes if I have my (normally permanent) WiFi SIP connection open and if I disable that it appears to work but none of my other devices could detect the WiFi network that it says it is offering up.

Hopefully a new release will address my problems in the near future because this could be very handy. Give it a go on your device and please do post a comment on here about how you get on. The download is available at http://www.joikuspot.com/aboutJoikuSpot.php

Via Thoughtfix