Posted on April 27, 2010
Eye-Fi announced today that their new X2 cards are being upgraded with Easy WiFi! If you don’t know Eye-Fi, they make super cool SD storage cards for digital cameras which contains a WiFi chip that can automatically upload your photos to the web. What this means for users is that they can now upload their pictures all over the world, at the many hundreds of Easy WiFi Network locations! Imagine being able to share your photos quickly, have “endless storage” because your card is never full, and have a web backup in case you lose your camera. The Eye-Fi card does all that! We’re very excited to be working with Eye-Fi. Aside from a great product, it’s an amazing example of what Easy WiFi can do. An SD card is a challenging environment to say the least – despite the lack of UI and limited resources, Easy WiFi still allows the X2 card to access a world of WiFi automatically. Congrats to our partners at Eye-Fi for this groundbreaking new product! Learn more at eye.fi.
Posted on April 23, 2010
First the good news: Easy WiFi is back in the Apple App Store. Yay! Now the bad news: Easy WiFi is out of Nokia Ovi Huh?! Yes, it’s been quite interesting recently with these App Stores. In the case of Apple, we’ve been out of the store for a while, reworking the app and resubmitting to conform to their every changing policies. Still, we’re very happy to be back and looking forward to getting some real development done that adds value in a future release. For Ovi, distribution was halted because of a policy change for products containing encryption. Quite draconian. We’re not alone in being impacted, and it’s probably going to take a month or two to sort out. Meanwhile, Nokia users can download the app directly from us at www.easywifi.com/download. Although we’ve been quiet for a while, there lot’s of new development activity at Devicescape. There will be a bunch of new releases coming soon, and you’ll see them first on Android. See if you can guess why!
Posted on March 5, 2010
You might notice that the main Easy WiFi application is not currently available in Apple’s app store. We actually removed availability of the app a few days back because the behavior wasn’t quite right on some devices and networks and we wanted to ready a new version. Ironically, we got hit in the much reported “WiFi scanner” purge that Apple did yesterday, so Apple removed our already unavailable app! Now, the Network version of Easy WiFi isn’t a WiFi scanner, although it does try to do smart stuff with WiFi on the iPhone OS, and this may have triggered Apple’s action. Nonetheless, we’re working on a new version which should calm their concerns and it should be in process within the next few hours. All being well, we’ll have a new app approved and available soon. Watch this space.
Posted on February 25, 2010
As part of our continuing goal to improve Easy WiFi we’re running a survey. If you’re a user of the Easy WiFi app on your device, or the web portal at easywifi.com, this is a good chance to tell us what you think! The survey is brief and should take 5 minutes or less to complete. We’ll post the results here in early March, but you can be assured we’ll take your input to heart. Click here to access the survey! Many thanks in advance, Dave
Posted on October 3, 2009
The Easy Wi-Fi multi network application (white icon) is temporarily unavailable in the Apple App Store. It will be restored on or around October 20th. So, why is it unavailable? Well, we’re working on a big new release, version 4. Due to the odd behavior of the App Store we can’t have the old version available while we also have a newer version with restricted availability. We’re not quite ready for prime time on the new app so we want to get it out to our partners and friends who will check it out and give us great suggestions. This forces us to halt broad availability and control access via Apple’s “promo codes.” Sorry for the delay. Meantime you could use another version of Easy Wi-Fi (they’re all extensible to any hotspot provider). What does version 4 contain? Well, it’s a secret! But we’re quite excited as it adds a revolutionary capability that many of you have asked for. Here’s a graphic from the app to tickle your imagination. Can you guess? Want to be among the select reviewers of the new app? Send us an email request. We have 10 promo codes available and we’ll allocate them based on…
Posted on September 14, 2009
We’re happy to announce that Easy Wi-Fi works fine in the latest 3.1 firmware for the iPhone and iPod touch. Yay! Thanks to our friends at Apple for helping accommodate us. Having got that out the way, there are a couple of things you might need to know. First of all, Apple’s special support only applies to the original Easy Wi-Fi multi-network application (the one with the white icon). If you’re using any of the other Easy Wi-Fi apps, like the AT&T or T-Mobile version, you’ll need to install the original version too. It’s free in the AppStore. You don’t need to use it: just the act of installing it has the effect of telling the iPhone OS not to do “smart” stuff with your Wi-Fi connection in hotspots. Finally, if you’re one of the many iPod touch users who never upgraded from 2.x firmware, ignore all of this. You’re fine. The issue only occurs with iPhone OS 3.0, and if you upgrade you’ll be jumping past that version from now on. We’re relieved to be back working better on the iPhone and iPod, although it’s clear that Apple hotspot support is still a work in progress. They did a…
