Free net access (milesource.com)

Name: Suja

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Product:	milesource.com
Date:	14.06.01 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast, Can make phone calls as well

Disadvantages: Will soon not be free but should be cheap

Want Internet access aswell as e-mail and text messages for free! Then try the new BT Multiphone. They are appearing around many tube stations in London. A distinctive red phone but with a computer screen they are easy to spot. It uses touch screen technology, you can access the World Wide Web, e-mail your friends or send a text message all for free (well it's free until the 14/06/2001, there's the catch but not a bad one I suppose).
On the home page there are even icons for popular websites e.g. hotmail and yahoo, which means you don't have to type in the website address, you just touch the screen. There is also a touch screen keyboard to type your e-mails etc. Being called a Multiphone if you do actually need to make a phone call then you just pick up the receiver and use your BT phone card, all very high-tech.
The down side to the Multiphone is after using it a couple of times it does seem to be slower (what do you expect its for free some might say) whereas when I first used it, it was unbelievably quick. This could probably be due to more and more people using them. I just hope there not that slow when you have to pay to get net access. Also be warned that your session lasts about 15minutes so don't get stuck in the middle of a long e-mail to a loved one and get cut off, which means starting all over again. Finally, the keyboard is not so great, it can be a bit fiddly at times and would have been better designed as a small physical keyboard where you could press the keys allowing faster typing.

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