GPRS phones are very widespead in SA – Mxit usage standing at 7million in SA (mostly under 30s), gprs data connections going well beyond this – If you can use Mxit you can use the Internet on your own phone and access wapedia – http://wapedia.mobi/en/ or google. As long you surf mobile optimised sites the cost is cheap – out of bundle – 1mb for the cost of 3 sms’s – in bundle much cheaper.
The samsung B130 only costs about $30 (R269) (including starter pack) – that appears to have GPRS and a WAP browser
A Nokia 1680 costs about $60 (R598)(including starter pack) – that has a WAP 2.0/xHTML browser.
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