'Proper' Internet or WAP

[Guest ArtyCarl]

Is it true that the SPV can access 'proper' web pages rather than just WAP pages and if so what is it like in terms of speed and more importantly cost.

Does anyone know roughly how many websites can be visited for say 1Mb on GPRS?

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Yes it's true that the SPV can view proper websites!! It doesn't support frames though, so any website using frames wont work!

Also, in order to be really functional, the website has to be built in a certain way, so you don't have to scroll too much etc. But there are a lot of sites viewable from the SPV - and larger companies tend to make sites that are viewable from PPC and our phone. An example being hotmail - whos mobile site works great.

If you turn off pictures in your explorer settings, you will save a bunch on traffic costs. I can't really estimate how many webpages you can see for 1mb's worth.

I use about 3 mb's a month, and I don't think twice before using my GPRS.

As for speed, it's like an old-fashioned modem *chuckles* (the horror the horror)

[Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem]

"How many websites = 1 Meg?" As a rule of thumb, Orange suggest that 20 HTML pages = 1 megabyte. It's a VERY rough average; pages with loads of embedded GIF and JPG files will be significantly bigger. I can think of two companies that sell refurb' handsets for example - one provides a picture of each phone on offer (seven, I think, plus company logos etc.,) , the other (with dozens of phones, mostly geriatric) is mostly text. The page with the pictures is MUCH bigger than the text-only page.

WAP on the other hand is mainly ASCII text - I provided Orange with the rule-of-thumb you'll hear from 156 (dating back to memories of my days selling Atari PD Software!) which is that Shakespeare's longest play is "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" - and that's 238k in size. So, their "10 megabytes a month" of GPRS WAP access for £4 equates roughly to "all the words in 50 copies of Hamlet."

Ever wondered what a mass of "1 Newton" feels like? It's about the weight of an average eating apple!