Android App can browse web on T-Mobile without data plan
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article published on 10 September, 2011
Not likely to be a working loophole for very long.
Customers of T-Mobile in the United States might be able to browse the web on their Android phone even if they don't have a data plan. Smozzy is an Android application that lets you browse through the web without a data plan, because the content is requested and delivered entirely via SMS and MMS messages.
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10. September 2011 @ 22:25 |
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wish i was in us id bash that like mad!, great idea though
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11. September 2011 @ 13:04 |
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i always get unlimited sms and i barely touch more then 30 a month.......handy if they did that here in the uk
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11. September 2011 @ 17:18 |
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When I do not have Data coverage (out of the city, on the open-range area) and only have a Phone coverage on my phone (Sensation)....it's handy.
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11. September 2011 @ 18:07 |
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Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all.
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12. September 2011 @ 07:11 |
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Originally posted by dali: Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all.
A Very Cool App. It works just like surfing the net with your phone using Opera Mini: rendering and almost as fast.....Your text the URL, send and your replay is your connection :)))
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12. September 2011 @ 10:15 |
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Originally posted by Mrguss: A Very Cool App. It works just like surfing the net with your phone using Opera Mini: rendering and almost as fast.....Your text the URL, send and your replay is your connection :)))
Wow... I'd never imagine that'd work, but now, just when anybody could think there's anything else out there waiting to be invented, I see it does. Well done. Hope it lasts!
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12. September 2011 @ 12:41 |
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Ahhh... how the Devil has work for idle hands.
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12. September 2011 @ 15:06 |
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Now, make that work with torrents and you've got something! ;)
Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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12. September 2011 @ 16:11 |
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Awesome concept! Seems like a great thing for anyone in too awful an area, but it turns out to be even slower than the Edge network around here. Not really a surprise I guess, even old Data is Data.
Surely an amazing thing for anyone without the more expensive plans or in a more-or-less dead area.
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12. September 2011 @ 18:01 |
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Originally posted by ThePastor: Now, make that work with torrents and you've got something! ;)
In the very beginning I thought they was using Bit-Torrents since the text message is just a Pixel-Dust and do not cost any money to any phone Co. (Including International and Roaming Text).....that most Co's charge for it......ripping people off.
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18. September 2011 @ 00:34 |
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Originally posted by dali: Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all.
SMS is a text format with characters per message limitations. As it works ALSO with MMS, situation would substantially be different.
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