{"id":605117,"date":"2009-11-12T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79574"},"modified":"2009-11-12T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:52:14","slug":"say-hello-to-devicescape-wi-fi-for-nokia-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605117","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello to Devicescape Wi-Fi for Nokia, Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><p><span class='quick-icon'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s1.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom3.5\/..\/gigaom-shared\/quick-icons\/48\/___wifi.gif?w=780\" alt='' \/><\/span> Devicescape is hoping to meet smartphone users&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/11\/if-mobile-carriers-dont-address-demand-for-wi-fi-ad-supported-services-will\/\">increasing demand for Wi-Fi access<\/a> by broadening support for its Easy Wi-Fi Network to include Nokia and Android-based handsets &#8212; beyond currently supported platforms such as iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Windows and Mac OS X. Given Nokia&#8217;s impressive worldwide footprint and <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/31\/android-this-week-droid-lands-on-verizon-google-adds-navigation\/\">Android&#8217;s newfound momentum,<\/a> the move, announced today, should help Devicescape build its customer base in a big way &#8212; which will be crucial as the company goes after hardware vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Devicescape said users can download an app from the Android Market or Nokia&#8217;s Ovi to access hundreds of thousands of free Wi-Fi hotspots; the app also includes a map view for locating Easy Wi-Fi locations. The San Bruno, Calif.-based startup, which <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/05\/yet-another-global-wifi-network\/\">launched its network last month<\/a>, competes with service providers such as Boingo Wireless and iPass. Unlike its competition, though, the startup is hoping to cash in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/08\/23\/look-how-ubiquitous-wi-fi-has-become\/\">increasing demand for seamless connectivity<\/a> by targeting the makers of smartphones, netbooks, digital readers and other connected devices.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=InF1M1Dhp60:iA4srg4zWV4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/InF1M1Dhp60\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devicescape is hoping to meet smartphone users&#8217; increasing demand for Wi-Fi access by broadening support for its Easy Wi-Fi Network to include Nokia and Android-based handsets &#8212; beyond currently supported platforms such as iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Windows and Mac OS X. Given Nokia&#8217;s impressive worldwide footprint and Android&#8217;s newfound momentum, the move, announced today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xpX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}