EXCLUSIVE: ONSPEED Windows Mobile update imminent!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Have you heard of ONSPEED, the internet acceleration software?

ONSPEED is billed as software that can give you broadband speeds without a broadband connection (the claim is probably overly bold), but if you look past the hype, there's actually a pretty decent product to be found.

The ONSPEED concept consists of a piece of client software that sits on your machine, and all traffic is routed via it. This software in turn talks to the ONSPEED proxy server, which compresses all up and down web traffic (text and images, with configurable levels of lossy image compression if desired), providing significant savings in data sizes, thereby improving speed.

While this is quite interesting on the desktop (and it works very well), it's something of a relevation on Mobile Devices, where size = cost!

Up to now, ONSPEED have had a Pocket PC 2003 client available, but I have just had word that around the 15th February, they will be releasing a brand new 'ONSPEED MOBILE' client, that will support both Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PCs, and Smartphones! Cool!

I'll have a full test when the software is released, but in the interim, you can read more - or sign up for £24.99 per year at www.Onspeed.com [Affiliate Link].

You heard it here first :)

P

PS I'm using it on the desktop with no graphic compression, only text compression, and the statistics are impressive, and it does feel quicker on some sites...

[Guest Dr Who]

I may be wrong but doesn't google supply a service like this with no client needed?

www.google.co.uk/gwt/n

Granted it may not be user configurable but my understanding was that it compressed pages ready for low bandwidth (or high data cost!) mobile devices.

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

No, that is actually changing the content... ONSPEED just passes thru all HTTP traffic, but compressed.

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[Guest spangelsaregreat]

Been using OnSpeed since March last year on my JAM and find it excellent (it was actually me who put Paul onto it as a product so technically you heard it from me first ;-) ).

Well worth the money if you use GPRS and have a capped usage allowance (which is most of us in the UK unless you have Web n Walk).

Regards

[Guest bluemeat]

Orange already reduce the quality of JPEGs downloaded via GPRS..

Though I gather this can do it to a far worse degree..

[Guest Socrates]

Any news on this? The minimum system requirements don't mention anything about Smartphone that I can see.