
So why doesn’t the app work? Although it’s natural to blame the app, in almost all cases, it’s a setup issue caused by brain dead GPRS data configuration model. Because the user can surf the web with the phone’s built in browser, they clearly have a connection to the web. The same thing often happens with the UC browser, gMail, Picomail, Google Maps, eBuddy Nimbuzz and other mobile Java applications. They download it from, it installs without error but when they try to run it they get the error “ Failed to connect to the internet“. But many people have trouble getting it to work. Opera Mini is an amazing mobile browser that gives almost any phone iPhone like Internet capabilities. Configuring GSM phones so that data aware Java applications like gMail, UC Browser and Opera Mini can connect to the Internet is a total disaster.
