Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[James Knott]

psema4 wrote:
>>The toy seems to be nice and usefull. I wonder how they produce images
>>of web pages on the server, to send them to this wireless displayer. Its
>>probably a patented technology but I suspect there is nothing very
>>complex there. Or anybody knows about a similar open source solution?
> 
> 
> It's looks like data-over-cellular.  They're not keeping the pages on
> their servers.
> 
> It'd be interesting to find out what's OS is running on it though.
> 
> On the open source solution side, I'm fairly certain you won't find
> any turnkey solutions.  (I'd love to be corrected on that!)
> 
> You might be able to put something together with a Sharp Zaurus and a
> decent data plan with your cell provider.  Definately a YMMV
> situation.
> 
> Pocket web surfer looks kinda neat, I just don't need another internet
> (or cell) bill.
> 

My cell phone has a browser built in and it also supports via GPRS, a 
connection to a computer.  I haven't tried it, as the service is 
expensive, around 5 cents/Kbyte, on Rogers.


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