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October 10, 2007

Nokia Distributes Devicescape Software

By Glenn Fleishman

Devicescape scores deal with world’s largest handset maker to ease users’ connections to Wi-Fi hotspots: Devicescape’s middleware lets a user connect to a hotspot—their own or a public one—with very little fuss, using a single super-account that consolidates all other Wi-Fi and hotspot network passwords and accounts. Nokia has been inserting Wi-Fi into an ever-increasing array of devices, which makes Devicescape a perfect match. The deal between the two first puts Devicescape’s Nokia-tailored software in a download area for the N95 smartphone and their tablet PC series that includes the N800.

The deal doesn’t extend (yet) to cell phones that have Wi-Fi built in; that combination could have huge repercussions for the carriers, especially on phones that can support VoIP over Wi-Fi. Update: The N95 is a smartphone, despite Nokia’s strange omission of any phone features in their description of the N95! (Devicescape also offers downloads from their site for E and N Series Nokia phones.)

Posted by Glennf at October 10, 2007 4:05 AM

Categories: Deals, Gadgets, Hot Spot

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