Toys

[brrm]

Considering a Treo 180 again.

Does anyone happen to know:
The Vodafone website lists prices for 'WAP over GPRS' for Pay As You Talk (the plan I'm on).

a) does this mean I can do Real Internet Stuff over GPRS with PAYT as well (as the Treo does this)?
b) if so, is 0.73p/KB going to add up to $LOTS for the odd ssh session/google access per day?

i.e. maybe I'd be better off going for something like their £15/month plan with £6 of "online data" and 100 anytime minutes.

It's all so complicated. :)

Update: Oh, and for those who have one, how's the keyboard?

Comments

[chrisvenus]

a) call me controversial but I would be thinking that "WAP over GPRS" means that you can do WAP over GPRS. You might be able to do more but I doubt it.

In a more technical sense I would think that the only internet service you will be able to access is their WAP gateway. If you can do clever things to get to the internet through that you may be in luck.

b) Can't you just see how much bandwidth these things use?

At a rough guess "a couple of googles" will be 2k for the main google page, call it 15k for results pages and assuming you want to look at pages afterewards then call it another 20k for the pages you look at. That's nearly 40k which will work out at 29.2p for the 40k of data.

As for ssh. No idea how to work that out in quite as simple a fashion. I'd suggest just doing some kind of traffic monitoring on an ssh connection that you can consider "typical" and see how big it is.

Maths isn't that hard, you know. :)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

You might be able to do more but I doubt it.

You're right: you can't. To get full IP over GPRS you need to go contract.