Guest Posted December 12, 2003 Report Posted December 12, 2003 I'm looking into perhaps providing a service which will drasticallly reduce GPRS usage when surfing the web on a mobile device and I thought I'd see what kind of demand there would be for it. There is no software to install, it's all done through the webbrowser. After logging on, you enter the web address that you want to go to. The service then strips out all the useless information, formats the content into one column, and reduces the size of any images (I tried it out on a 100k JPEG file and it reduced it to 1k!). In addition, you can also read your e-mails from multiple accounts through it, and even view PDF, Word, Excel etc. files that are attached. Again, with the attachments, the size is drastically reduced. There is the ability to set it all up (bookmarks, mail accounts etc.) from your desktop and you aren't limited to using it on one device as it will automatically detect the platform you're currently using and format the content appropriately, even for WAP. So is there any demand for this, and more importantly how much would you be willing to pay or am I just barking up the wrong tree?
Guest chucky.egg Posted December 12, 2003 Report Posted December 12, 2003 There are already services which offer some of these facilities: www.skweezer.net and ... another one... I can't remember the name though. Skweezer is $10 per year, so I would think you'd need to get close to that to get much custom. Doesn't the E200 do the "fit to screen" option better now? I'm not sure, but I think you might have missed the boat.
Guest ferret Posted December 12, 2003 Report Posted December 12, 2003 There's something similar here too, it's free. http://www.webxcope.com/rfxDM/goto.php The extra bits sound good though. Posted from my SmartPhone!
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