Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[James Knott]

John Macdonald wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm only looking for occasional use, so I'm not going to pay $100 month. 
  But at the occasional use rates, any reasonable activity is very 
expensive and as someone else mentioned, far above the costs for an 
equivalent phone call.

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