Turn your smartphone into a wifi hotspot

This is not a product review site, but I can’t help but talk about this software package that I stumbled on to today. Someone came up with the bright idea of writing a software which converts your wifi enabled smart phone into a wifi hotspot. This allows your laptop or other wifi devices such as a PSP to access the Internet through your phone’s data connection.

While a lot of PDAs do allow Internet Connection Sharing from laptops, it usually requires a proprietary software to be installed and requires the phone to be connected to the laptop either through Bluetooth or USB.

Requirements include Windows Mobile 5 and up, Wifi enabled PDA, Data Plan, 15 MB space, and Internet Sharing enabled. Before I forget, the software is called WMWifiRouter. Now, if only someone came up with an open source version of this.

April 9th, 2008 Posted in Good Ideas, Services and Tools

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