| Symbian | Default BT | USB (with Nokia PC Suite) | WHS | Joiku Light | Joiku Premium |
| Power consumption during idling | 0.2 (with random ~1.3W peaks) | 0.35 | 1.2 (with random ~2.2W peaks) | 1.2 (with random ~2.2W peaks) | 1.2 (with random ~2.2W peaks) |
| Power consumption during cont. transfer | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.75 | 3.25 | 3.25 |
| Nr. of clients at the same time | 1 | 1 | 5 (future versions may increase the limit or remove it entirely) | Many | Many |
| Max speed | ~60 kbyte/s | ~230 kbyte/s | ~230 kbyte/s | ~230 kbyte/s | ~230 kbyte/s |
| Allows for simultaneous use of handset? | + | + | + | + | + |
| Supported Protocols | all | all | All | HTTP(S) | Most, but not all (on desktop Windows clients) |
| WM clients | + | n/a | - (connects but the connection immediately terminates in current version; fixed for next) | - (connects but nothing works, not even with manual proxy setting, 192.168.2.1:80, in NF / IEM) | See Light - incompatible |
| Desktop Windows clients | + | + | + | + | + |
| Symbian clients | n/t | n/a | n/t | n/t | n/t |
| Means of safety & protection | BT authentication | Cabling – impossible to be hacked | WEP, client auto-connection can be disabled | WEP | WEP |
| Port forward / dmz | -; works on the sharing phone, though | See with BT | See with BT | n/a (no callbacks in HTTP(S)) | ? [1] |