Any experience with DataWind Wireless Pocket web Surfer?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Regarding high costs of sending/receiving data...

I spoke today with people at datawind.ca (they are willing to talk with 
anybody; contact info is available at their web site 
http://www.datawind.ca) .

Somebody mentioned, I think, 5 cents per 1 kB on Rogers?

Fido is used by these from DataWind themself. They pay 50 C$ per month 
for unlimited use. They say that costs in USA are even much lower, of 
the order of 20 US$ per month. They told me also that the costs of data 
connections should go much lower once these web browsing toys become 
more popular. And they will. I had an opportunity to use their 
PocketSurfer. It is a really nice tool (the server is running on Windows 
NT; I should have a chance one day to talk with technical people, to 
learn more about how they are doing all this). PocketSurfer has indeed 
high quality images, a nothing that one would like to compare with on 
other "mobile" toys, except of course the screen on a real computer. It 
loads web pages quite fast. They told me that within days a new version 
will be available, much even faster. The speed is an issue but if you 
look to this:

http://www.datawind.com/comparisons.html#BANDWIDTH%20CONSUMPTION

it becomes clear that their speed and data transfer is superior. I 
wonder what sort of compression they use.

zb.

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