Amongst all the recent hype about WAP (wireless application
protocol) many good things have come from it. Firstly its a good new fun
executive toy that is available to all since its prepay launch. If you want to
catch up on the latest news, weather, travel, sports or horoscopes and financial
listings and data, its great (if your 7110 does not crash). It is after all a
cut down version of
HTML. On its
launch, sites were limited and publicised in
such a way that it was just like the internet at home. Of course its not that
complex, but now there are 100s of great WAP sites waiting to be explored. There
are now sites from pubs n clubs in your area, eating and drinking guides,
banking, auctions and everything else.
Here is just a few good WAP sites
to visit :
Good
Wap Guide
Want to bet on
WAP?
www.etherbet.com/eb.wml
www.bluesq.com/wap
Cant find what you need?
Search one of these!
www.2thumbswap.com/wap
wap.fast.no
wap.google.com/wml
www.wapaw.com
Get a WAP email account
:
wap.mailandnews.com
Need help on a night out
:
www.ents24.co.uk/index.wml
Games & TV :
www.unmissabletv.com/txw/wap.wml
www.gameboyz.com/wap
ludiwap.co.uk
wap.picofun.com
Fancy Shopping?
mobile.excite.co.uk
www.top10wines.co.uk/wap
Sports/Results:
wap.football365.com
mmm.sports.com
www.waparesult.com/index.wml
Traveling Light?
www.connexwap.net/cx.wml
wap.hotelguide.com/
www.taxi-wap.com
Tooled Up?
uk927.com
Miscellaneous :
wap.cartoonscape.com
mobile.iii.co.uk
pocketdoctor.co.uk
Enjoy Them!
Really, whatever you or I make of it, its the platform to
another level, the future of mobile communications as we know it. WAP is merely
a warm up of what's to come. Until the future comes, the present brings it closer
with the new GPRS system.
Waps Next? GPRS
Now that most major networks are
supporting the new GPRS system and handsets of GPRS capabilities are more widely
available, you could start to see a change in the way that we pay for our phones
usage.
As we have seen, BT Cellnet, Vodafone and
Orange have released new tariffs aimed at the GPRS user.
GPRS stands for (General Packet Radio Services) and allows
mobile phones to connect to the internet using digital packets of information, rather
than simply throwing out data over a cellular channel normally designed to deal
with voice communications. Like the internet GPRS uses a basic data transmission
technology known as internet protocol or IP.
The internet has been successful largely because it allows users
to share the global networks resources. When users are not transmitting data on
the internet - that is, when they're viewing web content, the data bandwidth can
be used by other users.
Sharing resources on the internet is the main reason the web has
exploded with growth so quickly. Its cheap to access and easy to use, as with
GPRS instead of mobile phones using a network infrastructure originally designed
for voice and data transmissions and connections it uses the IP transmissions
standards, to allow loads more users to connect to the Net in a given area.
So, instead of a single cellular mast being limited to a
few dozen voice calls at any one time, several hundred GPRS data Calls can take
place at the same time, only when data transmitting is in progress the network
resources are being used.
This allows GPRS enabled mobiles to have an on-line session to
the company network, open all the time ready to receive e-mails sent within the
company network.
GPRS also allows more network resources to be linked together to
allow web surfing speeds to be up there with your connection on your PC.
Sim Free Phones
