so this is certainly a very important step to integrate mobile devices which have some kind of "internet connectivity" with the rest of the online community
Until now wap seemed to me like more or less useless but hip thing.
Were I live (Austria) all 4 major mobile phone providers are allready offering confentional wap service(portals, the ability to read news horoscopes and such, integration with outlook, etc.) but still i haven't seen one application which made me think: "hmm, This could actually be useful.
Of course it would be nice to read e-mails "on the run" but for those purposes i would use something like the nokia communicator or my notebook.
It's just *painfull* to read a e-mail on a cell phone display. Also the 9600 baud which gsm offers right now aren't exactly what i imagine(even though 9600 are certainly enough for telent and such) for real mobile internetaccess. GPRS and finally UMTS(when i finally becomes a useable technology(which some people like Nicolas Negroponte doubt) will hopefully solve this problem.
My personal opinion is that WAP will not only be moving toward "normal* internet standards but will become obsolete once bandwith and mobile devices will allow users to just mobile connect to "the internet", maybe with small modifications(screen sizes for websites and such) but still without a seperate protocol like WAP.
It's the easy to say "Blame the society/system"
In many cases when a revolutionary new view of things was introduced by someone, it wasn't the public that ridiculed and humilated him, his peers, the other scientists were the ones that fought against those new ideas(of cource thereby forming "Public" opinion
Not even the greatest minds(think about how long the academie francaise denied to accept any evdience for meteors, think abouts Einsteins constant tries to "defeat" quantum mechanics, think about simon newcombe mathematically "proofing" that a body that is heavier then air can never fly).
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so this is certainly a very important step to integrate mobile devices which have some kind of "internet connectivity" with the rest of the online community Until now wap seemed to me like more or less useless but hip thing. Were I live (Austria) all 4 major mobile phone providers are allready offering confentional wap service(portals, the ability to read news horoscopes and such, integration with outlook, etc.) but still i haven't seen one application which made me think: "hmm, This could actually be useful. Of course it would be nice to read e-mails "on the run" but for those purposes i would use something like the nokia communicator or my notebook. It's just *painfull* to read a e-mail on a cell phone display. Also the 9600 baud which gsm offers right now aren't exactly what i imagine(even though 9600 are certainly enough for telent and such) for real mobile internetaccess. GPRS and finally UMTS(when i finally becomes a useable technology(which some people like Nicolas Negroponte doubt) will hopefully solve this problem. My personal opinion is that WAP will not only be moving toward "normal* internet standards but will become obsolete once bandwith and mobile devices will allow users to just mobile connect to "the internet", maybe with small modifications(screen sizes for websites and such) but still without a seperate protocol like WAP.
It's the easy to say "Blame the society/system"
In many cases when a revolutionary new view of things was introduced by someone, it wasn't the public that ridiculed and humilated him, his peers, the other scientists were the ones that fought against those new ideas(of cource thereby forming "Public" opinion
Not even the greatest minds(think about how long the academie francaise denied to accept any evdience for meteors, think abouts Einsteins constant tries to "defeat" quantum mechanics, think about simon newcombe mathematically "proofing" that a body that is heavier then air can never fly).