Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[James Knott]

Howard Gibson wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:07:47 +0300 (IDT)
> Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>On Sat, 14 May 2005, James Knott wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>5 cents/kByte for a GPRS speed of about 10kBytes/sec is about 30$ per 
>>minute. How much money do you make ?
> 
> 
>    More importantly, how many websites are surfable by a cellphone.  I can surf the web with my Telus cellphone, but most commercial websites are unreadable by devices with small text displays.
> 

I was hoping to connect my notebook computer, to my cell phone, for 
wireless access, but at the rates Rogers charges, it's far too 
expensive.  As for the browser, many sites are charged on a per use basis.


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