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Microsoft just hammered out a deal to get Windows Phones access to 12 million Wi-Fi hotspots from its new partner Devicescape.
WP8 users can access the hotspots by using Data Sense, the new feature that helps limit your network usage (and thereby helps keep you under your data cap). You’ll be launched into a Bing map, with locations of nearby hotspots. Windows Phone’s Local Scout will also chime in with locations of nearby hotspots when you use the service. Local Scout has traditionally been pretty behind, so a presumably updated list of hotspots would be nice for it to have.
Devicescape has deals with some networks about the world, but this is the first broad platform to be supported. That said, the Devicescape hotspots, for now, are only going to be available to Verizon WP users in the US. Hopefully that’ll change going forward with the us lot in the UK getting a sniff. The deal is similar to the one that Intel has with Devicescape for ultrabooks (using Smart Connect), which, you know, run Microsoft’s software, for the most part. More free hotspots, even licensed ones for specific platforms, are a good thing. [Devicescape via FierceBroadbandWireless]
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no WP7?
damn.
That phone needs talking down from there.
Completely US based news shouldn’t be on Gizmodo UK surely?
Devicescape works just fine in the UK. Used to use it back in the Symbian days.
But Data Sense isn’t supported in the UK yet. Also, as the article says:
“…the Devicescape hotspots, for now, are only going to be available to Verizon WP users in the US.”
“Microsoft Just Scored 12 Million Wi-Fi Hotspots for Windows Phone” – that are absolutely useless to readers of this website.