Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th Jan 2006 05:51 UTC
Times change. If Internet was the main tech revolution of 1990's, mobile communications is the revolution of our time. The next step will be to fully merge these two concepts and allow users to browse the web via their phone at very cheap rates. Today, we look at the various offerings found on most phones. Our hope is that we will familiarize you with some of these solutions and so the next time you buy a phone, you actually also check what browser it's using. That will be a good step towards making carriers and phone manufacturers aware that the mobile web users exist!
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2006-01-26
If you expect "the web, but smaller", WAP will definitly dissapoint you. On a day-to-day basis, WAP is excellent for small, focused tasks that can be represented as moderate amounts of textual information. Checking timetables, news headlines (you know that OSNews is avaliable both as WML and XHTML MP?), surveillance (it's easy to whip up dynamic WML pages that poll allready computerized system) and occassional time killing.
For most other things, WAP is at best functional as an emergency or special-case solution. (you can read/write mail, IRC, search google, do banking).
But anyhow, if you have a charged laptop and are in the vicinity of an open wifi-hotspot that is always the most confortable way.