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Pogo No Longer Vaporware

Posted by timothy on from the eentsy-weentsy dept.

nicu writes "Back in April the Pogo device has been regarded with scepticism by many of the slashdot users. People should have a look to see where are they now, as it is the fastest wireless web browser around. The claim for 56k was made for ordinary CSD at 9.6k baud. For GPRS it claims more than 120k and it really feels that way. Customer reviews are available at the Pogo Portal."

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  1. And? by evilviper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The question is, how much are ISPs charging for the service? That's what really decides if a device is going to live or die.

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    1. Re:And? by frp001 · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's Pogo only ISP... And they charge £7.99/month for access.
      Besides this extract from the FAQ does not make it look that good.
      Pogo works well with millions of web pages, but pages that use the following may not work as intended by the designers: audio and video streaming (Real, Quicktime, MPEG), animated GIFs, DHTML, CSS, plug-ins, ActiveX and Java applets (except Flash 4). JavaScript requiring anything more than the level 0 DOM or a mouse action (e.g. mouseover) may also experience some confusion.
      Doesn't work as expected with GIFS, DHTML, CSS, plug-ins, java, javascript... So, just plain hypertext hey?

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  2. Pogo Vapourware? What? by Mr_Silver · · Score: 5, Informative
    (disclaimer: I live in the UK)

    On the 26th September I was at the Mobile Choice Awards (big telecoms do where they eat and drink a lot and pat each other on the back for winning such awards as "best UK NOP", "best customer service" etc) and I met several people from Pogo (have their business cards to prove it).

    Naturally being from a NOP myself, they were eager to show their product. I can assure you that the Pogo hasn't been vapourware for at least 6 months (they've been selling in Carphone Warehouse for ages).

    In fact, they're already released an updated version of the software.

    I'm not going into the specifications because someone else can probably do it better than me, but in short it's flash based running on a custom OS with a very pretty interface. It's main problem (for me) is that it's too big and bulky.

    However, I can't see my company selling their products through the distribution channels since the US arm sells something made by their closest rivals.

    But, Pogo hasn't been vapourware for 6 months.

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  3. Yeah cool, but .... by lushman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about the UK, but in Australia phone companies charge around 3c/KB or even 16.5c/30sec + 16.5 sec flagfall for WAP or GPRS services. Just perousing the trolls on /. is going to cost you are large sum of money.

    I don't understand cellular network providers ... they upgrade their network so people can take advantage of new services, but charge so much for them that end users ignore the new facility. Now that's what I call progress.