Recently we launched a new application called HandyWi+. HandyWi+ is an advanced version of HandyWi with similar features. What’s different, is how connection is done, HandyWi+ is not showing any landing pages after successful connect, resulting in faster Wi-Fi connectivity. In case you are a real Wi-Fi warrior, heavely using Wi-Fi on the go – HandyWi+ is ideal solution for you. HandyWi+ is exclusively available in Ovi Store for a launch time price of just 3 EUROs! So hurry up to become HandyWi+ club member!

If you still wish to access our landing page and use additional services like Landmarks, you can still do it, just connect to Wi-Fi or 3G and press Options->Web, you will be redirected to our website for device registration.

To buy HandyWi+ from Ovi Store click Download button below.

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:

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.

The deadline for HandyWi release v1.4 is quickly approaching, there are many improvement made in functionally and device support in addition to language translations. The new client will be available in English, German, French, Dutch, Lithuanian and Arabic, if you would like to add your own language the time is NOW! Please post a comment to this article in case you would like to contribute a translation and we will send you our localization files.

HandyWi is featured on Vodafone Betavine! Betavine is an open community & resource website, created and managed by Vodafone Group R&D, whose mission is to support the wider development community in stimulating ideas, developing, testing and launching great new applications for mobile and Internet communications.

Today British Telecom announced the winners of BT Wi-Fi developer challenge competition. HandyWi was judged by a panel comprising of one judge from BT, one judge from Symbian and one judge from an independent organization and took second place! BT press release.

About BT Developer challenge:
BT now offers customers Wi-Fi connectivity in a large number of locations through its Wireless Cities initiative and its network of BT Openzone hotspots.
This offers the potential for customers to utilise new, exciting applications that make use of this fast, high-bandwidth connectivity.
To support this, the BT Wi-Fi Developer Challenge has been launched to seek out the most innovative applications for Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices.
The challenge is supported by Symbian.

HandyWi v1.2 has been released today. Just follow standard download instruction here to get it. In case you are running v1.0, all you need to do is to connect to any WLAN access point with HandyWi to receive an update. The new release contains:

• Support for more than 100 Wi-Fi networks, including BTOpenzone, The Cloud, Golden WiFi, Orange, AT&T, Japan Telecom, KPN and many others
• Support for Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi networks
• Public view shows all open hotspots
• Over a dozen community reported bug fixes
• French and Dutch translations, thanks to Steven and Pierre-Emmanuel from FrancoFON
• JoikuSpot Light support, for more read here

Due to the large amount of connection requests from HandyWi users we are experiencing temporary service interruptions today (21st of January 2008). This results in delays when connecting to WiFi using our client, also landing page is not displayed. The problem will by fixed today, by upgrading our server infrastructure, sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: All servers are back online. January 21.01.2008 11:25 local time

Recently we started our cooperation with Joiku. Joiku is now featured on HandyWi landing page and visible to mobile WiFi user in more then 100 countries worldwide!

About Joiku.com:

Joiku.com is a social web community around premium quality free mobile software for any mobile device.

The user centric mission of Joiku is to enable downloads of premium quality mobile software for free, in an extremely easy fashion (1 click SMS), and for any mobile device, gadget and platform on this planet.

Every time you connect to a WiFi hotspot, HandyWi is trying to load a web page located on
our server. We call it – HandyWi landing page. In most cases this connection is done automatically and will not cost you anything as it is done over WLAN.

Nevertheless, in some cases your WEB browser will be configured to always prompt
(aka. Always ask) for an access points before doing Internet connection. In this case you have to select “HandyWi APN” from the list and not one of the GSM operator specific access points.

To illustrate this use case, i will show a few screenshots. Start HandyWi and search for some hotspots, select your hotspot in the list and hit connect.

You will see a couple of progress indicators on the screen, as the last step WEB browser will be started and prompt you for an access point.

Make sure you selected “HandyWi APN”, after that HandyWi landing will be loading over WLAN free of charge!