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Old 12-08-2007, 05:18 PM
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After reading a little on this it looks impressive, but the cost does suck.
50.00 if you buy the whole year, 5.00 per month and no trial available I could find.
Seems like its an AOL type of thing which is how and why they charge. They process all the pages so they are optimized for the mobile phone. Want to try, but damn thats pricey
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/soft...hunderhawk.htm
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How is this done?
I asked Sampo Kaasila just that question. I imagined that ThunderHawk proxy servers act as a middle-man, reformating the content to make it suitable for Pocket PC screen then sending it out to your device. Here's the definitve word from Sampo: "We do rely on an array of ThunderHawk content adaptation servers acting as proxies. These servers have a very fast Internet connection so they are able to download all the HTML and images fast. They do not strip out content, instead they do all the heavy weigh lifting (page layout with font substitution) on the server and the actual page content is then transmitted in a compacted format to the PDA.
A key thought behind what we do is that we are trying to preserve the content and desk-top experience on the wireless device"
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