JoikuSpot Is My Lifeline On-The-Go

There's two reasons why I use Nokia N95 8GB instead of iphone at the moment. One is the relatively high quality video camera, which I need for the ArcticStartup interviews and the second is JoikuSpot, which have been my lifeline after my Finnish ISP, Elisa, decided to provide horrid service and cut my ADSL connection when I needed it the most. I now use Nebula, but before I transferred I found JoikuSpot to be gold dust and now I use it whenever I'm on-the-go.

JoikuSpot is a Finnish mobile software that you can connect to Internet easily with and securely using your mobile phone's 3G internet connection. In effect, you will always have a secured personal WLAN (Wi-Fi) HotSpot on-the-go. Multiple devices can connect in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection, even though that will naturally slow the connection down. The service is a fantastic back up and a great way to do work on-the-go. For ArcticStartup it has been priceless as we've been able to connect from the venue as the events unfold and live-blog the news to you.

Joikuspot has been downloaded (Light + Premium) a total of 350,000 times through different channels. The numbers started to run wild just recently after JoikuSpot got distributed globally via Nokia Download! client. In total JoikuSpot will be pre-installed in 23 different phone models and about 50 million Nokia phones. The software will be for example in Nokia's new touch phone 5800 Music Express.

JoikuSpot light is free and the Premium costs 15 euro. The company sells the Premium model also as a white-label to operators. First one out is the Fon model. They have also couple other operators ready to go, but can't give out names just yet.

The Premium version has the following additions:


  • 3G auto reconnect: Restores the 3G/Edge/GPRS connection in bad network conditions.

  • Support for new phones: Nokia N96, N78, N79 and N85

  • Support for 13 languages including French, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Chinese, Japanese Spanish, German, Italian, Finnish, English and Swedish.

  • Light supports only HTTP(s), email protocols (e.g. Gmail, Outlook) not supported in Light

  • Premium supports email protocols

  • Premium supports secure corporate intraweb access (VPN)

  • Premium is optimized for fastest and most stable network connection quality

  • Premium supports Skype and messengers

  • No forced first landing page in Premium


You can find the supported mobile phones models at the JoikuSpot website.

Sometime early 2009 JoikuSpot is aiming to bring more sophisticated models to the market. They told ArcticStartup that the up-coming features will be something that has not be seen before in the mobile industry. We just hope this would include a faster connection, as even though the software is a life saver it's painfully slow at that. WiMax anyone?

ArcticStartup is happy to be able to give out 20 free JoikuSpot Premium invites to the first 20 readers who tells us why they need one in the comments.

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Sami, December 01, 2008

I'd like to give JaikuSpot a try. Anything that makes nomadic work easier is more than welcome.

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JC, December 01, 2008

lots of meetings on the go. Public WLAN converage in Finland is still pretty bad.

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very, December 01, 2008

I need one, since there is no ADSL in my new flat where I just moved. Thanks go to Elisa for the slow process of transferring my ADSL...

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Heikki, December 01, 2008

I would like to give it a try as well. I travel quite a lot and I'm tired to fight with Nokia PC Suite.

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et, December 01, 2008

need joikuspot for backup to my elisa adsl which seems to break every now and then

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HS, December 01, 2008

Sounds like an application that could ease my pain with the bluetooth pairing between my phone and laptop. It works right after the reboot but that takes sooooo long when sitting in a meeting.

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Karri, December 01, 2008

Obvoiously I need one because I'm such a mobile guy and my iPod touch need to be online outside WiFi coverage as well!

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Jani Joki, December 01, 2008

Just wasted another hour of my life trying to get bluetooth tethering to work. I swear SE changes the way its done at every revision of their 'connectivity' software. I'd love to be able to kiss both bluetooth and any SE software good bye.

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HeikkiV, December 01, 2008

I'd need one too since bluetooth tethering with my N95 and MacBook Pro is really flaky.

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Peter Robinett December 01, 2008

I need a copy of JoikuSpot because my DSL DNS servers fail consistently every evening at around 23.00, right when I like to read ArcticStartup!

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Kim Lindholm, December 01, 2008

Sound like it would come handy every now and then. Would not mind a free invite.

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Otto K, December 02, 2008

I would love to have an invite, I've heard good things about it and god I've lost track of times I would've needed internet but the damn cable is missing. Plus I've got a new girlfriend who's really nice but _does not have adsl/wlan/nothing in her flat_. So, to make it short: you would save my life.

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Ville Vesterinen December 02, 2008

Valid reasons all and worth an invite =) I'll send out the invites out later tonight! Thanks guys!

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Pete, December 02, 2008

I have almost 50 min bustrips to commute to work and back, and using my Asus Eee with internet connection from my mobile would make those trips quicker!
I'd check this site every morning and evening:)

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Jani, December 02, 2008

I have Nokia E90 Communicator for work but sometimes I need to browse web. Because browser sucks in E90, I use iPod Touch's excellent Safari. That's my main use of Jaiku at the moment. Thanks for great software!

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Robert Aarts, December 02, 2008

Moi! I'm really keen on trying the (new) Premium version for 2 reasons: I run Linux on my laptop and using a phone as a modem over Bluetooth works but is difficult to set up. Joikuspot should be much simpler. Second I always need more than only HTTP. Not only Skype but also email-over-SSL, Yammer, and most of all secure SSH tunnels to various servers.

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Ville Vesterinen December 02, 2008

Still have five invitations left. Anybody else want one?

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samik, December 03, 2008

Haven't tried Joikuspot yet but it sure sounds interesting. If it works with E61i, I'd like to give it a test drive. Maybe even write about it in my blog.

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Antti, December 03, 2008

I would too like to have an invite. That would save me the trouble of setting up bluetooth for multiple computers.

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Lauri, December 03, 2008

I would too like to have an invite. Now i'm using it but I need connections for IM and email too...

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hannu, December 03, 2008

Hello,

I am a person they call an early adopter. I have tried the free joikuspot and told about this nice product to my friends.. I do not know about the features of the premium version just yet.. ;)

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Mark, December 09, 2008

This is late, but I hope you still have one left! I could really use joikuspot premium for connecting my laptop to the internet through my Nokia E71's wifi capabilities. Thanks ArticStartup!

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Binoy, December 15, 2008

This is just the software I was looking for. I am always on the move and for the same reason I don't have a ADSL connection. I was frustrated with the PC suite to connect via USB and more via Bluetooth. I hope this will give me some relief.
Thanks ArticStartup & Joikusoft!!

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Mark, December 18, 2008

I posted a message last week, but didn't hear back so I thought I'd check. Is there still one left?

Thanks!
Mark

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Ville Vesterinen December 18, 2008

@Mark,

Must've missed the message. Will send you one asap. Will also send one to you Binoy. Enjoy!

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Ville Vesterinen December 18, 2008

Ok guys. We just gave out our last invite. Hope all you enjoy your JoikuSpots. It's gold dust =)

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