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Android App can browse web on T-Mobile without data plan

Not likely to be a working loophole for very long.

Customers of T-Mobile in the United States might be able to browse the web on their Android phone even if they don't have a data plan. Smozzy is an Android application that lets you browse through the web without a data plan, because the content is requested and delivered entirely via SMS and MMS messages.



Of course that means your plan had better include unlimited messaging.

It has been tested only with the Nexus S and HTC G2 devices so far, and will only work with T-Mobile's U.S. service.

Use of he beta app is entirely at your own risk of course. Reviews for the app so far are mixed.

More info: https://market.android.com/...

Written by: James Delahunty @ 10 Sep 2011 21:40

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• 11 comments

• A5J4DX

  wish i was in us id bash that like mad!, great idea though
  

  10.9.2011 22:25 #1

• JGJD2001

  i always get unlimited sms and i barely touch more then 30 a month.......handy if they did that here in the uk

  11.9.2011 13:04 #2

• Mrguss

  When I do not have Data coverage (out of the city, on the open-range area) and only have a Phone coverage on my phone (Sensation)....it's handy.
  

  +4000

  11.9.2011 17:18 #3

• dali

  Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
  
  A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all.
  

  “You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable.” -Abraham Lincoln.

  11.9.2011 18:07 #4

• Mrguss

  Originally posted by dali: Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
  
  A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all. A Very Cool App. It works just like surfing the net with your phone using Opera Mini: rendering and almost as fast.....Your text the URL, send and your replay is your connection :)))
  

  +4000

  12.9.2011 07:11 #5

• dali

  Originally posted by Mrguss: A Very Cool App. It works just like surfing the net with your phone using Opera Mini: rendering and almost as fast.....Your text the URL, send and your replay is your connection :)))
  Wow... I'd never imagine that'd work, but now, just when anybody could think there's anything else out there waiting to be invented, I see it does. Well done. Hope it lasts!
  

  “You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable.” -Abraham Lincoln.

  12.9.2011 10:15 #6

• LordRuss

  Ahhh... how the Devil has work for idle hands.
  

  http://onlyinrussellsworld.blogspot.com

  12.9.2011 12:41 #7

• ThePastor

  Now, make that work with torrents and you've got something! ;)
  

  Unfortunately for them, all Blu-ray protections have been broken and BD rips can be found around the Internet, usually before the retail even hits shelves.

  12.9.2011 15:06 #8

• buxtahuda

  Awesome concept! Seems like a great thing for anyone in too awful an area, but it turns out to be even slower than the Edge network around here. Not really a surprise I guess, even old Data is Data.
  
  Surely an amazing thing for anyone without the more expensive plans or in a more-or-less dead area.
  

  ~*Livin' Electronicallly*~

  12.9.2011 16:11 #9

• Mrguss

  Originally posted by ThePastor: Now, make that work with torrents and you've got something! ;) In the very beginning I thought they was using Bit-Torrents since the text message is just a Pixel-Dust and do not cost any money to any phone Co. (Including International and Roaming Text).....that most Co's charge for it......ripping people off.
  

  +4000

  12.9.2011 18:01 #10

• pmshah

  Originally posted by dali: Yeah, but, ehrm... Is unlimited messaging really unlimited and reliable?
  
  A 150 KB web page would need 1,000 SMS to be downloaded, with no single data loss, nor signifficant lag, which would have to be sorted and rendered afterwards, so... Is this some kind of a joke or what? I just can't believe this can be put into practice at all. SMS is a text format with characters per message limitations. As it works ALSO with MMS, situation would substantially be different.

  18.9.2011 00:34 #11