Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the 3G war in India. <br><br>The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the mobiles. <br><br>I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying. Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in the mobile browsers. <br>

<br>regards<br>Ramesh ng<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I agree with Srikanth on this issue.<br>I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have even edited several articles from my phone.<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" target="_blank">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org" target="_blank">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,<br>
don&#39;t some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for<br>
free?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and data charges apply for images  on the article from commons). I am not very sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown territories.</div>




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