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Summary
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The Full Web: Real HTML pages, graphics, java scripts....no compromises! |
Limited web functionality: Reformatted scrunched-up pages, unable to deliver Java Scripts and much modern web functionality |
Blazingly fast: 5 to 7 seconds per page |
Painfully slow: 1 to 3 minutes per page |
Very thin: 1/2" |
Thick & bulky |
Power of a monster server in the palm of your hand |
Insufficient memory or processing power |
Full VGA Width - 640 Pixels |
As little as 120 pixels -- insufficient for the web |
Massive keyboard |
Tiny keyboards |
Affordable |
Expensive |
Positioning
Phones with data functions |
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A cell-phone: Slow, limited access on tiny screens with arcane data-entry |
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PDA/ Phone Combos |
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A PDA pretending to be a cellphone: Slow, limited access on small screen |
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Different products, different applications, but not appropriate for web access
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Cellphone Accessory: DataWind Web Viewer |
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A dedicated web-access device, sold as a cellphone accessory, providing full web-access on a VGA-width screen at a blazingly fast speed. |
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Introducing the first truly mobile solution for interactive wireless web access
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Speed
Wireless cellular networks are plagued by limited bandwidth, and even with next-generation networks, data carries a lower priority than voice. DataWind's technology accelerates the delivery of web-pages by factors of 10X to 30X, without any change in network infrastructure.
While other products deliver web pages in as much 3 to 4 minutes across cellular networks, DataWind consistently delivers pages in less than 10 seconds.
Bandwidth Consumption
With next-generation packet networks, the cost to the carrier, and hence the consumer is no longer the amount of time spent online, but instead the number of packets (megabytes of bandwidth) consumed. Packet networks optimize bandwidth usage by bundling and parsing multiples of channels to deliver a more enhanced experience.
DataWind's solution consumes significantly less bandwidth, thereby creating savings for both the carrier and the customer. A customer can easily save over 200MB in bandwidth with the DataWind solution, in 20 hours of usage over a month -- which could result in $20 to $80 in carrier data charges.
User Experience
Most handheld devices cannot deliver the full web experience. For example, upon reading the fine-print, they'll reveal, that they: Cannot view Java applets, Java-Scripts, image maps, animated images, background colors/image, font colors, style-sheets or plug-ins. They not only require to go through a new learning-curve, but require content providers to re-create existing web content for each different device.
DataWind, on the other hand, delivers the complete desktop web experience: Full HTML web pages, graphics, java-applets, java-scripts, active-X controls, cookies, pop-ups, PDF files and more . It requires no new learning curve or recreation of content.
Screen Size
DataWind's Web Viewer delivers a full-screen 640 pixel VGA-width user experience, requiring minimal horizontal scrolling.
With competitive products, small screen sizes, result in re-formatted scrunched-up pages that do not resemble the user's desktop experience. If the pages are not re-formatted, they require significant scrolling, making usage very difficult. While, when they are re-formatted, content becomes difficult to locate and navigate.
Form Factor
DataWind's PocketSurfer Web Viewer is the thinnest of the handhelds in the market, making it easy to carry and store. The size of a cheque-book, it can be easily carried in a pocket or purse.
Price
Price Matters: Competitive products are not only expensive, but require customers to be locked into long term, expensive monthly contracts in-order to subsidize.
DataWind's Web Viewer is affordable, with no need for lengthy contracts.
Memory & Processing Power
Handheld devices have limited memory and processing power -- constrained by the physical size and battery life. DataWind's solution provides the power of a monster handheld, in the palm of one's hand, while keeping the device affordable, thin, light and with a long battery life.
Coverage
DataWind's solution is network agnostic, and will work on past, current and future networks, providing the broadest coverage of any handheld web device . While other products are limited to next-generation 2.5G and 3G networks, with limited coverage -- the DataWind Web Viewer will deliver a faster, richer experience on 2G networks, than most devices can on even 3G networks.
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