Comments on: Novatel MiFi 2352 Portable WiFi Hotspot: First Look [UPDATED]

By: Broadband in your car [MiFi] | The Really Mobile Project

Broadband in your car [MiFi] | The Really Mobile Project — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:48:14 +0000

[...] as separates previously, but with the device alone costing around £100 previously and some competing devices costing around £250 (albeit not network-locked) this has bargain written all over [...]

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By: The Really Mobile Project » Blog Archive » A Dongle Discovery

The Really Mobile Project » Blog Archive » A Dongle Discovery — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:06:20 +0000

[...] As I’ve mentioned before though, I don’t think that these super-connected wonders are for everyone. I personally always carry around a data dongle for my MacBook Pro and when that doesn’t work, I have the rather fantastic, Joikuspot. [...]

By: kyrylkov

kyrylkov — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:52:57 +0000

Buy MiFi 2352 from an official distributor without a contract, SIM free for less than 200 GBP with free worldwide shipping: http://store.mpxsys.com/novatel-wireless-mifi-2...

By: The Really Mobile Project » Blog Archive » Battle of the MiFis… Round 1

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:15:37 +0000

[...] took a quick look at the Novatel MiFi 2352 ‘mobile hotspot’ last week, which is avaiable SIM-free now or expected on Vodafone soon. 3UK Huawei [...]

By: jamesbody

jamesbody — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:08:13 +0000

I concur fully with Kip – battery consumption was a major factor in my decision to invest in portable WiFi AP. The Novatel MiFi will gve of the order of 4 hours of continuous use (depending on 3G signal quality in your location), whereas I would not like to run Joikuspot for more than 30 minutes in 'handwarmer' mode on my E71.

JoikuSpot is a brilliant backup/standby, but for serious mobile use a portable MiFi type unit is required.

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:09:02 +0000

From experience JoikuSpot (which is great) rapes the battery like there is no tomorrow, not a fault of the software, just the fact 3G and WLAN are battery killers. Once your phone battery goes, (unless you have alternative power), you're fucked.

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:32:05 +0000

The foibles of global roaming data aside, how cool would this have been on your recent global jaunts? If the device was unlocked, you pop in a prepay data USIM and share the love among your traveling fellows, whilst being confident that you can still use your phone if out of reach of a mains charger. We are planning a month-long European family odyssey next summer, and an unlocked one of these is very high on the shopping list. We'll be able to put it anywhere in the villa / gete / B&B we can get good coverage (often in an upstairs window).

Having done this last year using Joiku, it was a real pain having to sprint upstairs in the holiday cottage to answer the phone (assuming you heard it in the first place)

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:11:25 +0000

Disagree – MiFi has benefits of dongle (speed, reliability, separate dedicated contract for data) plus portable sharing at about same cost as dongle. Joikuspot is good ad-hoc emergency / occasional use tool.

If you have a dongle you might as well choose this instead – as long as it continues to perform I can't see a down-side.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:00:55 +0000

So the answer to my question:

"What is the benefit of having one of these if I already have say a full Joikuspot client running on my Nokia handset?"

...is: "None, unless you want to share your wifi connection when you're not there."

I don't need one then. Cool. Cheers.