Handheld Web Browser

[spoyser]

Saw this on Ideal World last night (yes I was bored!!) looked rather smart, as anyone got one or heard anything about them?

http://www.bitsub.com/1001860001/

 

[KoH]

seems to be lots of hidden costs/monthly carges

 

[spoyser]

seems to be lots of hidden costs/monthly carges

Think you must have read it wrong, from what I can see there are no hidden charges, year 1 is free for 20 hours a month (or £5.99 per month unlimited). Year 2 £40 or again (or £5.99 per month unlimited).

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/htm/Free%20Airtime.htm

Unfortunately it seems that it uses the Orange network (via built in sim) so no coverage for me at home :-(

Apparantly they use a patented compression system at their end to compress the pages before they are sent to you. They claim a 2GB PDF in 7 seconds! And that's using GPRS.

 

[sam fisher]

seems to be lots of hidden costs/monthly carges

Think you must have read it wrong, from what I can see there are no hidden charges, year 1 is free for 20 hours a month (or £5.99 per month unlimited). Year 2 £40 or again (or £5.99 per month unlimited).

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/htm/Free%20Airtime.htm

Unfortunately it seems that it uses the Orange network (via built in sim) so no coverage for me at home :-(

Apparantly they use a patented compression system at their end to compress the pages before they are sent to you. They claim a 2GB PDF in 7 seconds! And that's using GPRS.

Its physically impossible to compress a 2GB PDF down to roughly 50KB.

 

[spoyser]

seems to be lots of hidden costs/monthly carges

Think you must have read it wrong, from what I can see there are no hidden charges, year 1 is free for 20 hours a month (or £5.99 per month unlimited). Year 2 £40 or again (or £5.99 per month unlimited).

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/htm/Free%20Airtime.htm

Unfortunately it seems that it uses the Orange network (via built in sim) so no coverage for me at home :-(

Apparantly they use a patented compression system at their end to compress the pages before they are sent to you. They claim a 2GB PDF in 7 seconds! And that's using GPRS.

Its physically impossible to compress a 2GB PDF down to roughly 50KB.


I think that was on a review page I came across so probably nonsense! Although I think they do actually use lossy compression removing stuff that they don't think will make any visible/functional difference, so who knows. Bit like MP3 for webpages!

Don't seem to be available to buy online yet so I guess no one has tried one out.

 

[lubidog]

If that works it would be great! If...

 

[moxie]

Although I think they do actually use lossy compression removing stuff that they don't think will make any visible/functional difference, so who knows.

Like Opera Mini, then?

 

[computarman]

I personally am not in the mood to pay $60/month for cell data service. I have free wifi at work. Would'nt an unlocked iphone be better than this device.

 

[spoyser]

I personally am not in the mood to pay $60/month for cell data service. I have free wifi at work. Would'nt an unlocked iphone be better than this device.

Where did $60 come from?

Since it uses GPRS it can be used anywhere that an Orange/T mobile phone can be used so not at my home :-( It isn't reliant on a Wi-Fi spot.

It also has a full qwerty keyboard, and most importantly looks rather smart ;-)

Figures suggest that it is currently 10x faster than the iPhone but given that there is considerable pre-processing at the server end this figure will presumambly drop once the device is in greater use.

 

[sam fisher]

It just removes all the stuff that you would see on the iphone. It probably reprocesses all images to super low quality.

 

[tim0391]

it seems alot of money for what it is and these days most new phones have a full web browser in them.

 

[Samba Pa Ti]

this should be in the offtopic / other consoles section, it has nothing to do with the gp2x.

 

[Nova]

I'm quite interested, if only you could make calls with it, and browsing was free, and it was like 50 quid cheaper.