Guest fraser Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Is there a mimimum size GPRS transaction used for billing? (I'm UK Orange) I'm implementing a remote control tool for Winamp that will allow you to control winamp and the it's playlist, as well as add files from a library. I'm doing this in XML/XSL and a some javascript, so it will run in Internet Explorer and the only GPRS traffic will be minimalist XML traffic to and from Winamp. All of the images, HTML and XSL files will reside on the phone. This should make it pretty fast and very cheap to use. For instance, if you were to fire up the app and check the current track and maybe execute a few play control actions, the amount of data transfered would be less than a kilobyte, i.e a fraction of a penny given a £3 per Megabyte tarrif. Do the mobile operators have a minimum "chunk" they use when adding up all of the GPRS you use. Or is it added up byte-for-byte? Also, if anyone is able to lend a hand, perhaps with the graphics or HTML layouts, that could be useful. It will be a fully skinnable & programable interface by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dan.peterson Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Charged by the kilo byte and rounded up to the nearest penny? Think that is O, might be O2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Firaas Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Charged by the kilo byte and rounded up to the nearest penny? Think that is O, might be O2. Charged by the byte I believe! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest amo Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Your plugin sounds promising! Keep us posted :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fraser Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Here's a small proof-of-concept, using a client-side XSL transform that works in Pocket Internet Explorer. I'm a while away from getting anything public though, got the control stuff working, but I need to wait on the Winamp plugin folks behind BrowseAMP to implement the same tricks they do with *.html files, but on *.xml files. If anyone has some working javascript code to read the contents of a URL into a string, then I can work around it for now. Any takers? :lol: This page describes a technique for it, but I couldn't get it to work properly when trying to get the value into a variable instead of a obj.innerHTML manipulation.Pocket IE XSL Transform.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 Moved to development. Hopefully someone will pick this up and help you fraser :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CamperBoy Posted May 30, 2003 Report Share Posted May 30, 2003 Did you get any further on this fraser?? It would be cool to control winamp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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