Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[John Macdonald]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:57:59AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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.

Telus has the same sort of $10/MB charge as Rogers, but they
offer an unlimited plan for $100/month.  I haven't gotten
past the investigation yet to see how it works in practice.

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