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machrider
on Sept 11, 2014
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Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, ...
Probably because of the restricted character set available in SMS messages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
bri3d
on Sept 11, 2014
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Right, but with the GSM 7-bit alphabet they could easily expand their index table to 127 entries rather than Base64's 64, netting them much greater efficiency.
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