AutoWifi - a nifty little BlackBerry application
Tags :BlackBerry AutoWifi wifi bluetooth BlackBerry Today Spiked Studio
If you have a BlackBerry device with wifi capability, turning it on and off and managing the different settings becomes a pain. A cool little application was dug up and highlighted in BlackBerry Today Episode 5 from Spiked Studio. If you haven't been watching and/or subscribed I suggest you get on board.
AutoWifi controls turning on an off wifi (and even Bluetooth) automatically based on location. So over a few times of manual intervention it learns and then begins to do it for you.
Conserve battery by automatically turning off WiFi when your BlackBerry is connected to a Bluetooth device such as the BlackBerry PlayBook, your car Handsfree Link or the desktop computer and automatically turn WiFi back on when disconnected from the BT device.
AutoWiFi can handle upto 32 different Bluetooth devices. You determine which Bluetooth devices for AutoWiFi to manage WiFi connectivity. When Bluetooth connection is made AutoWiFi will automatically turn off WiFi and when connection is disconneted AutoWiFi will turn WiFi back on. However, if WiFi is already off when the connection is made AutoWiFi will not turn WiFi back on because it was original off.
So after a week with this, I found that it did a great job of learning and adjusting on it's own. Saving battery and speeding up some of the data access for the BlackBerry.
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On Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 by Chris Miller
