Notices

Would be nice (painful) to have some sort of proxy on the n900 that sends the request as a sms, and then a computer (that receive the sms) to send a bunch of sms back that would be translated by the proxy to a normal response for the browser. Of course, you need unlimited sms plan:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06...hdot+(Slashdot)

This will be good as a "proof-of-concept", just like in the Slashdot article, there is no way to do anything usable on this kind of speed.

"They sent around 80,000 messages in the course of a project testing a new protocol able to cram 32KB into 250 messages sent from a BlackBerry, reaching a rate of 20 bytes per second."

I will pass. I prefer to read my books in the rural area than surfing the web using sms if the speed is 20 bytes per sec. Try to watch youtube

yeah i don't know what you mean by "nice"
sounds rather "painful" to me.
i'd rather send free text messages via the web!

SMS is conveyed as part of the SS7 out of band dialing (A 64kbps timeslot in the same trunk usually, but not always), depending on how loaded up the system is, I'd imagine they would often actually get even lower data rates.

SS7 is a complex little beast - sneakernet might be a better alternative these days.