hi!
We have now 4 companies providing cellular phone in Portugal, and 3 of them
have been announcing in a very loud way "you can have now Internet access
from you mobile...". Wrong!!!
What they all do is to provide access to their proprietary portals of
information from a mobile phone using their network (where one can get
information about the weather, stock-exchange, break-news, etc.). The
portals have no gateways to the web, and one can not access any other
service from the phone...
I think that this WAP/WML thing is just a curiosity of the moment, until
we'll have more wireless powerful phones/PCs, probably using also HTML/XML,
but just using a different "row protocol" than TCP-IP (well, who knows...).
But it has been funny to see those lots of projects promising to do
something interesting in some interesting area, and in some place they
promise also "to have a WAP service too". The last one I remember was about
virtual museums (believe it or not...). But this is our world of today, my
friends, 49% vaporware, 49% of obsolete technology, 1,9% of Microsoft
Windows, and 0,1% of dreams and hard work that will change the future (btw,
I include DC here).
Regards,
jlb
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Apps <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Terça-feira, 16 de Maio de 2000 17:50
Subject: Re: WAP and DC
> Dear All,
>
> Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I've been having a quick look at WAP, the Wireless Application
> > Protocol for digital mobile phones and other handheld wireless
> > devices, and in particular at WML, the Wireless Markup Language.
> ...
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