App Enables Surfing Over SMS/MMS Through T-Mobile

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 9, 2011 @02:51AM from the wonder-how-long-this'll-last dept.

MrSeb writes "An ingenious browsing hack has emerged: if you have an Android smartphone and a T-Mobile (US) unlimited messaging plan, you can now use an app called Smozzy to surf the web... for free. Smozzy is just a wrapper around the standard Android browser, but instead of requiring a data connection, everything is funneled through SMS and MMS. Whenever you click a link, instead of firing off a packet to a remote web server, a web request is instead sent to Smozzy's intermediate server via SMS. Smozzy forwards the request, downloads the web page you're trying to visit, and then sends it along to your phone as MMS messages — and both SMS and MMS are completely free with T-Mobile's unlimited messaging plan."

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Re:Cost Much? by Haedrian · 2011-09-09 03:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

Which part of "unlimited messaging plan" did you fail to comprehend?
The same part of unlimited internet having a cap.
Re:and this kids is why by BJ_Covert_Action · 2011-09-09 04:18 · Score: 4, Insightful

We would stop abusing, "the system," if the system would stop screwing us.

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