Anyone got a pocket-surfer?

[Timmy33]

Just wondering if any of you lot have tried one of these thingies...

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/

It's meant to give broadband web surfing, on a PDA sized device, but with no need for a contract.

Sounds a bit too good to be true....so I'm just wondering if any of you have got one, do they do what they say they do?

Cheers.

Tim

[97octane]

Sorry, pocket billiards for me!

[Dupont666]

Timmy33 said:

Just wondering if any of you lot have tried one of these thingies...

http://www.pocketsurfer.co.uk/

It's meant to give broadband web surfing, on a PDA sized device, but with no need for a contract.

Sounds a bit too good to be true....so I'm just wondering if any of you have got one, do they do what they say they do?

Cheers.

Tim

Thought there was stil a subscription fee per year?

[E36GUY]

Yet another gadget to carry about. My O2 XDA does just the job for me and has WiFi too so you can use hotspots. I don't find I ever actually need broadband when out and about.

[Zebrano]

A guy here has one... very crap and slow to be honest has only used it 5 times since he got it. I had a go and got so fed up with it I gave up.

[BlueEyedBoy]

Has anyone tried this recently. I think the download speeds have meant to have improved.

[Plotloss]

Was tring to order a Collect@Store item on one, inside PC World yesterday, as I forgot my phone.

They're toss, massively, comprehensively and unmitigatingly toss.

Think of a nice gadget that works reliably.

This is the exact opposite.

[anonymous-user]

Pocket billiards for me. Is that similar?

[Dogwatch]

BlueEyedBoy said:

Has anyone tried this recently. I think the download speeds have meant to have improved.

Ideal World were selling them on TV over the weekend - £10 cheaper than the Websurfer site. Uses G3 technology on the Orange network apparently. Demos seemed to have reasonable response times and I did consider one but reckoned that an Asus eee while £50 more expensive was more like what I required.

[Mattt]

Plotloss said:

Was tring to order a Collect@Store item on one, inside PC World yesterday, as I forgot my phone.

Plotty in 'Shops at PC World' shocker.

[Plotloss]

Mattt said:

Plotloss said:

Was tring to order a Collect@Store item on one, inside PC World yesterday, as I forgot my phone.

Plotty in 'Shops at PC World' shocker.

Only for certain items that I cant wait for...

[rhinochopig]

I have a pocket elephant - would you like to see him?

[rpguk]

According to the benchmark on their website it says 9seconds to load the CNN website and quotes GPRS. If it's using GPRS then it's obsolete already.

Otherwise looks interesting but I can see how the concept could be buggered as plotloss says.