We just added a new feature for our Landmarks page. You can now see pictures around landmarks you uploaded! Those images are taken from Panoramio and can be activate by pressing Images button in the top-right corner of the map. The Images button is visible on all pages containing maps (except mobile) and is diactivated by default. Enjoy this new way of exploring what’s around places you’ve visited or planning to visit!
Now HandyWi has it’s own Twitter channel, feel free to subscribe!
We are proud to announce that we just launched a new version of HandyWi v2.0 and a new Website ! Feel free to check latest HandyWi features and send us your comments! Here is a short summary of what’s new in this release:
This weekend we are going to perform planned maintenance operations on our servers, during this time you may get some small interruptions when connecting with HandyWi. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. The plan is to have all work done till Sunday 26th of April, 00:00:00 CET
Recently we reported a problem connecting to FON WiFi network (FON_FREE_INTERNET) using HandyWi. This issue has been resolved, you can now connect to FON network without any problem! Thanks to FON team for a quick fix and Steven for the bug report!
Moscow has become the unquestionable leader in the number of public Wi Fi hotspots, reports Laptop online magazine. Having been a runner up in Wi Fi spots for a few years, Moscow offers more than ten thousand places to get an easy access to the web, leaving London and Taipei behind. Recently, Russia has been placed on the 4th place in the world in Internet penetration and the total size of the Russian cellular market is estimated 167.7 million, giving the country a penetration rate of almost 120 per cent.
Russian HandyWi user base has doubled in this quarter and we are predicting that the trend will continue throughout 2009. Latest HandyWi release v2.0 will be available in Russian language, with even more WiFi features.
HandyWi is now featured on Samsung mobile Applications portal. The portal was first introducted during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and is focused on providing Symbian S60, Java and Windows Mobile applications. It is similar to Apple App. Store allowing application developers to earn money and distribute freeware applications to the large audience of mobile users. Samsung mobile Applications is currently in the Beta stage and is hosting more then 1100 various applications.
Starting approximatly begining of March we received many complains about troubles connecting to FON spots (FON_FREE_INTERNET) with HandyWi. We can offcially confirm that it is not possible to connect to FON spots as of 1st of March, we are currently trying to resolve this issue with FON and will let you about the results. Feel free to post your comments here.
HandyWi Team wishes you all the best in 2009! It will an important year for us, we have so much to achive! We would like to thank all of you for your support!
HandyWi Team
Time is runnig fast! Today HandyWi is 1 year old. During this 12 month we achieved really a lot! We have mobile clients for Nokia Series60 and SonyEricsson UIQ3 phones, in total 30 smartphones are supported. HandyWi users connected to more then 100.000 hotspots in 176 countries including exotic places like Barbados, Mauritius and Macau. We support more then 100 WiFi networks including BTOpenzone and FON.
