4 months ago I went to get the SonyEricsson usb-modem from mobinil, it was really that expensive in that time, 4 months later it goes down 75% of it’s price !!! wahhhh, but of course with different China disposable USB-stick, different material, however, the internet speed on the USB is fairly good sometimes, but sometimes goes really down, please check the attached ping status below …
The other thing is that ‘prepaid’ solutions is really expensive, imagine, opening a page like your hotmail interface only would cost you 0.35pt, that means if you tried to check to read mail and/or your outlook went to download the mails on the background by mistake, you will lose your credit in less than 5 minutes !.
Screenshot of my desktop SonyEricsson Wireless Manager
There is no doubt, it’s still great to have such portable thing with you, it helped me alot to get online and to send/check things, but it is too expensive even to browse, and since most of websites now implement javascripts to handle postback and ajax with really rich content like animated or interactive Flashs, FLV videos banners like Yahoo ads., your PC can shamelessly and transparently can download 4mbyte flv video banner on the Yahoo mail interface and thus …
I do some trick to browser cheaper from mobile, since I can use the laptop connectivity to browse if my mobile connected through, i like mobile browsing for that thing :-).