Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Peter wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 14 May 2005, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> 
>> They have the web site at
>>
>>     http://www.datawind.ca/
>>
>> for instance.
>>
>> 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?
> 
> 
> I don't know how *they* do it but xvfb is how I'd do it ;-). That and 
> some compression on the wireless transfer and it works. The reverse 
> signalling (mouse etc) is trivial on 433MHz. The main stream may require 
> a 2.4GHz link depending on desired speed. F.ex. 115kBauds can be sent on 
> a 433MHz link and that would make it as fast as dialup modem.


They, it seems, do that on windows, so they have Internet Explorer 
compatibility.

But.. wait.. your method would allow to have more that just web browser! 
  An entire desktop would be availalble with all programs, am I right?

zb.

> Peter


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