This is embarassing but..

After 4 ? years I finally realised my mobile phone has internet capabilities..( I still haven't worked out how to put photos from the June L/W/E storm 2007 off it..I think I lost the cable..). Anyway I entered Seabreeze but the default graphs are for WA..It doesnt give me the option for NSW..Is that a problem that I have to ring my Telco and talk through or can someone here suggest anything..? The model is Telstra ZTE 3G..

What is this internet thingy of which you speak?

Thanks. I'll have a look when i get the time..I've got no idea how to copy & paste to my phone..??

Hello, SBC,

My niece recently found that her 'phone had Internet access, so she promptly ran up a $300 bill for one month. Be VERY careful when you surf the Net on a 'phone!

Any page that has lots of colours is generally going to cost you a lot in download fees, so it's better if you download text only.

Following JayBee's advice, the top diagram on the page is for WAP (text only) and it gives a site, a time, a minimum and maximum wind speed in knots and the wind direction. Initially, you might have to spend a little time to find out the exact page that you need (but I'm sure you can type faster/better than me).

Because some 'phones do not have the tilda character (~), you might care to go here http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/wap.html for an explanation of how to get around it, if you need to. Note that this site is for VIC, not NSW.

Don't know what carrier you're on but, when using the 'phone, Telstra have a link on their site so that you can see how much it's costing you each time you visit a site (it takes about 24 hours to catch up). Also, by paying an extra $5/month on top of the 'phone fees, you can download a set amount, before the big charges start to apply. If you need more info on this, please contact me and I'll put up the links.

Personally, I use the Watkins and Seabreeze WAPs, with only occasional visits to "full" sites.

Hope this helps.

Nup. Touching the address bar gives me a cursor and the screen is all homepage
No keyboard appears. Normally these things are reasonably self explanatory but this thing is.......
stoopid.

So, having tried to help SBC (as per above), I shut off the ‘puter, walked out to get the mail and Hey Presto, here’s this month’s bill for the mobile. Oh look, the Customer Service Dept. at Telstra have done what I asked and given me an itemised account of every call made on the ‘phone.

So, the Watkins/Seabreeze WAP pages download in about 8 kB each and cost $0.02 each time I access them. That seems fair.

On one particular date, I was prevented from entering Green Point and, using WAP, was able to estimate that Rye was a goer (went there and it was!).

Total WAP cost for the month was a whopping $1.52, for 37 visits to the sites.

SBC, take some advice: get WAP on your ‘phone!

I see ONLY one thing
That as a message for you to hit the west coast .....dood