New Version of Toonel Released: Save Bandwidth & Costs!

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.toonel.net/' target='_blank'>http://www.toonel.net/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"toonel.net is an experiment in a technique for conserving network bandwidth. If you are paying a fee based on the amount of data you transfer (e.g. 3G/GPRS/DSL/CDMA) and have monthly download limit, or if you have narrowband connection (e.g. dialup modem) then you are most likely to appreciate the service toonel.net offers. There are number of toonel.net client application packages. All solutions are 100% Java based and therefore this service can be used on any platform with an installed Java Runtime Environment, including mobile phones."</i><br /><br />Toonel allows you to setup a proxy on your device that will filter out bandwidth hungry objects and provide you with lower data transfer and subsequent costs. Now with a Windows Mobile version, what's not to love?

[x51vuser]

Very interesting application ... idea looks better than WAP.
Maybe next versions would make affordable for folks in Europe to
watch TV on phones,PDAs as DVB-H, DMB will not be deployed
here. I am not sure though further compression of audio/video
stream could be done ...
Currently EU operators push heavly for RealNetworks solutions.
For example Orange offers cheap TV programming only on
the following devices:
Siemens SX1 Nokia 6230i Samsung Z300 Nokia 6230 Nokia 6600i Nokia
6630 Nokia 6680 Nokia N70 Sony Ericsson K700i Sony Ericsson P800
Sony Ericsson P900

And this is despite they sell PPC phones under own brand !

Unfortunately in EU we do not have services like MobiTV or
SmartVideo that are offered by third party i.e. independent from
operator, and which support broader set of devices and almost
any type of connection.

The only suggestion I have is to go away from slow, unreliable
.NET Compact Framework and offer Toonel as unmanged app.