India unwired

Sometime ago while doing a Material for Aruba networks, I wondered if those kinds of things would ever reach our streets in India. A world where you can be check your mail on your system from a remote bus stop in an area which rarely had a vehicle on road !
But this has happened now, within one year.
Things are happening so fast that you can't know what world you will wake upto.

I was able to check my email, reply and forward stuffs through by mobile phone, login to cric-info for the latest cricket updates. Thanks a lot to Opera. Its was much like getting back to your old pals.

After Getting Addicted to Firefox, and having to carry IE as a burden, using a 3rd Browser was very difficult. I had to Quit using Opera. My pet browser which is still the fastest. It so painful to Uninstall it that I havn't dared to.

After Installing Mobile version of Opera, it was real browsing freedom.
The Gmail Mobile Stuff was buggy. I couldn't connect to my mail with it in My Sony Ericsson K300i. Always showed Java Exception errors. And the default browser in phone was too young to handle Gmail.

With Opera, I won my freedom. I'm grateful for Ranjit for his suggestion at apt time. I never thought that My phone was so smart to handle it. May be Opera is smarter, and Google has a challenge ahead.

And not to forget Hutch which gave the network coverage.

If you think browsing in the small screen of mobile is not fun, Get your laptop online on Reliance or Tata Indicomm Card. These guys are providing network card that you can connect to the Firewire port on your laptop and get connectivity anytime anywhere where there is mobile Network. And you needn't worry about the network coverage For Reliance mobile anywhere in India.

So if you are visiting India get a Hutch connection on your mobile as soon as you get here, and activate ur GPRS. BSNL is not bad, but I wont recommend it.

And If u have a Laptop, The Network card comes in cheaply at Reliance offices which are spread across the country in almost all streets and even under the trees on footpath !

some info on the wireless card

Note : it seems like an ad, and i swear I'm not paid for this! :D