New Nokia device added to the supported devices list, now it’s Nokia E71! The E71 includes A-GPS, WiFi, a 3.2 megapixel camera, A2DP Bluetooth, 110MB of built-in memory and a microSD slot. It is also known as the thinest QWERTY smartphone on the market!
On 25th of June CHINACOMM started testing its citywide free wireless in Beijing. This project is also know as “Beijing Wicity” and has a goal of providing wireless access during Beijing Olympics in August this year.
Initially they aim to cover around 1 million square kilometers: much of downtown Beijing including the area along the second and third ring roads, CBD, Financial Street, Zhongguancun district.
To give it a try look for CECT-CHINACOMM name in HandyWi hotspot list, the network has no security enabled and no authentication is required so far. Obviously this is only valid for people living or visiting Beijing, China.
We would love to hear your feedback about how HandyWi is working with CECT-CHINACOMM, feel free to send your feedback to info (eta) handywi (dot) com
In April this year we announced support for Samsung SGH-i550w smartphone, now it is time for Samsung SGH-G810! This fantastic phone sports 5M pixel camera, GPS, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, WiFi and yes HandyWi runs very well on it!
SGH-G810 is available on European and Asia-Pacific markets. For more information check Samsung Mobile website
Several users reported troubles connecting to FON network using HandyWi during last two days. We have been looking into this issue and found out that FON team was doing some changes in their login module. The issue has been resolved today (2008.07.01 13:45) so you can login to FON network again.
We will keep you informed in case we have more information.
HandyWi is now officially supporting latest Nokia N78 Series60 phone, which is candybar phone that success the N77. Nokia N78 features a 2.4-inch LCD display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, 20x digital zoom, video recording function, and LED Flash; built-in media player, FM Tuner and Bluetooth. The phone supports WiFi 802.11b/g, A-GPS navigation. It comes with 70 MB memory and supports microSD card slot.
For full list of supported phones click here
We all agree that email is something we use every day, checking mail on your mobile phone while sitting in a cafe sipping your Macchiato, sounds great isn’t it?
Many of us are using Gmail for private or even business mail, Gmail has it’s own mobile mail client, which works quite well, but on Series60 phone you can use internal Messaging client and enjoy many of it’s useful features including IMAP Inbox.
Setting up S60 Messaging client for Gmail is a bit tricky, luckily guys from Mobile Pakistan made an effort to compile complete manual how to actually do it. This video below shows you how to setup your Gmail IMAP Inbox on Series60 phone and fetch email over WLAN using HandyWi.
Before you start, please make sure you enabled IMAP in your Gmail account settings (first step in this manual).
Whisher (Barcelona based startup) is building world’s largest Wi-Fi network which includes commercial and private hotspots. With Whisher account you can access WLAN networks from many providers, like BTOpenzone, AT&T, Starbucks and others.
Now you can use Whisher network with HandyWi! First register with Whisher here and get your Wi-Fi Out credit. After registration is done, enter your Username/Password in HandyWi Accounts in format weroam/<your whisher username>@whisher.com and you are ready to go! This YouTube video shows how you can setup HandyWi for Whisher.
Please note that this method will not work on Whisher Shared Hotspots and WLAN networks which are NOT in this list.
In February Samsung started to ship new SGH-i550w device, which is basically a better version of well known SGH-i550. The new i550w smartphone has everything the previous model had, including the built-in GPS, HSDPA, 2.6″ QVGA screen, 3.5 mm audio jack, GM radio, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD slot and adds WiFi support on top of that!
Unfortunately, this glorious device is only available for Middle East and Asian markets at the moment. We have done some testing in Singapore with Wireless@SG network and can confirm that HandyWi is working just fine on this cool gadget!
Wi-Fi Alliance announces its priority focus for this year during CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.
The key initiatives for the Wi-Fi Alliance this year is pushing WiFi-enabled handsets. Thanks to the iPhone, which incorporates both WiFi and EDGE, consumers are becoming more educated about the marriage of WiFi and cellular and the type of experience they can have over WiFi, noted Kelly Davis-Felner, senior marketing manager with the alliance.
Davis-Felner cited a recent white paper written by Tonse Telecom and sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance that indicates much of the growth of the WiFi market in India is likely to come from handsets since subscribers there are accustomed to using sophisticated data services on their handsets more so than laptops.
Some of the initiatives the Wi-Fi Alliance to push along the adoption of WiFi in cellular devices include instituting a program that will test voice performance over WiFi. That program will be implemented within the next quarter. The alliance has also begun benchmarking power consumption of these devices and is seeing enhanced talked time at an average of three to eight hours using the WMM Power Save component.
In a separate interview, T-Mobile Product Manager David Sholkovitz said the operator plans to offer some 10 WiFi-enabled devices by the middle of this year that will work on the operator’s Hotspot@Home UMA service.
When asked how resistant operators are to enabling WiFi on cellular devices, Davis-Felner said: “This is the first year we’ve had to do less of a sales job. The iPhone, the Nokia N-95 and others have brought awareness and WiFi is maturing.”
In the past, many operators have been resistant to the idea of allowing their subscribers to access unlicensed WiFi services. AT&T obviously has warmed up to the idea with the iPhone, but previously had disabled WiFi in many of its phones.
