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WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP
antimatt writes "Everyone knows WAP is dead. It was dead on arrival. Right? Wrong. WAP use, at least in the UK, is up 42% in the last year. Are we seeing postmortem twitching, or a phoenix rising from the wireless ashes?" While the first incarnation was pretty rough, WAP is slowly growing into what people had hoped the first version would be. Now if only it just lost the stigma attached to it.
.. and it'll gain another 100%.
I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it.
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The WAP standard is not closely followed by all phone/PDA browsers. You have the openwave browser working pretty well with it, and then you have the Nokia phones crashing the whole phone with some markup (even valid markup).
People should fix their browsers, it not just a matter of fixing WAP itself only.
WAP is the sound your WAP-enabled phone makes when you throw it in the trashcan!
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I have a T-mobile Sidekick/Hiptop and I have always thought of doing that while playing NTN but it's just not fast enough. You are better off guessing or waiting for them to tell you the answer (depending on the game type).
What wireless net access *is* good for (as explained by a friend) is finalizing drunken bar arguments over stupid shit like "what was the name of the juice that the Gummi Bears drank to make them bounce?" "Gummiberry Juice" is the correct answer in case you were wondering.
Sadly the bartender wouldn't name a shot after it.
I think WAP is a very cool and convenient technology, it's the best thing since sliced bread and it lets me
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So what does the acronym WAP actually stand for?
Answer: Wait And Pay.
perl -e 'printf("%x!\n",49153)'
Free content on a cell phone you say? With a limited display size, where the hell do you put the banner ads to pay for the content?
And we all know the web really took off for the same reason VHS did: Pr0n...
No pop-ups? No banner ads? No free content...
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Last year, 31 people used WAP. This year, 44 people used WAP, therefore usage has grown 42%.
That would make 2005 the year Linux will succeed. I will watch carefully.
"The real internet?" The WHOLE THING? Holy shit! That's an amazing phone. Mine only lets me surf the web and check my email. :(
And I hear the limitations and faults in WAP 2 have been addressed in HTML 3.2...
why doesn't slashdot pay everyone a million dollars? because its expensive.
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