Ingenious Android App Allows Web Browsing Over SMS

If you have an Android smartphone and a T-mobile unlimited text plan, there's a new, free, way to browse the web. Smozzy Beta, developed by Jeff Donahue is a free app available on the Android market that is at a glance-glance simply a wrapper for the built-in web browser. The brilliant difference is that instead of transferring data over 3G, packets are transmitted and received in every way via text message.

While this would be a great app for those times when 3G is unavailable, I wouldn't recommend T-mobile users suddenly go out and cancel their data plans at this time. This is a hack and if T-mobile figures out how to detect its usage, I don't imagine they would hesitate sealing it up on their end. However it be, kudos to Smozzy developer Jeff Donahue for a most righteous hack. Now if you could only figure out how to package VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) over SMS you'd actually have something!

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