iPod Touch Tricks: Your 3G iPod Touch for Surfing Outside using Joiku
The iPod Touch trick lies in using another Wi-Fi enabled mobile and converting it into a hotspot to which our iPod Touch will connect to access the web or for making calls. Things required are : Any Wi-Fi enabled mobile, Joiku and iPod Touch. Joiku is mobile application which turns your handset into a mobile hotspot. Mitchell at Geardiary has used the method successfully using E71i and iPod Touch.
The setup is same as on the home Wi-Fi router and you should have no problem surfing the web and for making calls you have to install third party apps like skype. Head over to Geardiary for full story.
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is like a standard mobile phone with access to internet enough? like for example simple sony ericcson phone, i access internet from the phone can i do i it with this or does it need wireless connection to the phone? i dont understand it, can someone please let me know how to use it more in details?
Does anyone know what phones have access to this feature and whether you need to pay for this addition joiku service?? I would love to get going on this ASAP.
yo boss
can u please do tell me how to set the SSID, and a security code so it will be permanent..
thanks a lot..
Joiku let’s u use wifi on an itouch or laptop using your mobilephones 3g connection, so any phonewith 3g can be used as a wifi hub
Is there another way to do this without the other phone? I mean another way to get internet virtually anywhere on the iPod Touch.