JoikuSpot Turns Symbian S60 Smartphones to Wi-Fi HotSpots


BARCELONA, February 5 /PRNewswire/ --     Joikusoft Oy Ltd. today announces JoikuSpot, a free mobile software
solution that turns a Symbian S60 Smartphone to a Wi-Fi HotSpot.

According to the Joikusoft Oy Founder and CEO Mr. Lasse Maki "Internet
should be easily and cost-efficiently accessible everywhere, and Joikusoft
aims to enable that with the JoikuSpot innovation."

JoikuSpot enables S60 Smartphone to share it's 3G internet connection
wirelessly over WLAN with any compatible WLAN device such as laptop, other
Smartphone or e.g. Apple iPod touch. Multiple devices can connect to
JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection.
JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.

JoikuSpot is easy. When turned on, external WLAN devices can discover the
open JoikuSpot and establish internet connection wirelessly using the mobile
phone's 3G internet connection.

JoikuSpot saves money. JoikuSpot can be downloaded for free at
http://www.joikuspot.com. JoikuSpot users may consider whether they need a
physical internet connection at all (e.g. ADSL) in certain remote locations
such as summer cottages or if they any more wish to pay for the costly
internet services offered by many hotels, airports or conference centres. The
most cost-efficient usage can be achieved with unlimited mobile data plans
offered by many operators.

JoikuSpot adds productivity. JoikuSpot can offer internet service for
instance while on a train or car.

JoikuSpot is fast. Compared to e.g. Bluetooth connection, WLAN connection
is several times faster.

For operators and device manufacturers JoikuSpot presents a new type of a
business opportunity. JoikuSpot encourages its users to upgrade their mobile
data plans to faster and fixed monthly plans, and usage of JoikuSpot sizeably
improves the user data ARPU.

JoikuSpot(c) is based on Joikusoft's patent pending technology, and the
limited beta version for Symbian OS unveiled today is called JoikuSpot Light.

Joikusoft launched a social web community http://www.joiku.com for free
premium mobile software few months ago. Following this ideology of free
premium software, JoikuSpot is made available for free to the Joiku user
community. In just few months Joiku has grown to hundreds of thousands
visitors worldwide. Joiku.com is based on Joikusoft's SHADE1.0 platform.

About Joikusoft

Joikusoft is an innovation house focusing on mobility. Joikusoft is a
privately held company, founded in 2007, and headquartered in Garden City,
Espoo, Finland.

Visit http://www.joikuspot.com, http://www.joiku.com,
http://www.joikusoft.fi or contact us at info@joikusoft.fi. or call Lasse
Maki, mobile +358-40-754-3440, lasse.maki@joikusoft.fi

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