I'm not sure you'd actually want to do this (would you want to connect to the Internet using 12 kbps dial-up?), but if you have an Android smartphone and a T-Mobile USA unlimited messaging plan, you can now use an app called Smozzy to surf the web at no additional cost. It's going to be painfully slow, but it is without additional cost, so some people might have reasons to try it, now and then.
Smozzy is a software wrapper around the standard Android browser, but uses only text messaging and multimedia messaging for communications.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
You Can Use SMS, MMS Channel to Surf Web, But Do You Want To?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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