To get online you'll need to install a browser plug-in, or iPad app which will send you off to the commercials before sending you on your digital way.

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Kin Studio mimics many of the user experience paradigms of the Kin's on-device software, including access to The Spot and a live connection to your social networks that allows you to send out unified status updates from your browser.

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Once I completed my album, I selected a few images to send to the handheld by clicking the Palm icon at the lower left of the browser window.

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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.

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Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.

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