The initial services will be offered via a WAP-enabled phone from Nokia, and will be fairly basic, comprising information services including sport, news, weather and a business directory. Orange may intend to charge for premium WAP services...
as its official WAP content provider and launched two Web-enabled handsets and its first mobile data product, the IC35. The GSM World Congress is this week showing telecommunications operators the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) way.
The lucky few that managed to find themselves a phone are frequently frustrated by browser crashes, slow speeds, and an inability to access so-called WAP-enabled sites. First of all, WAP-enabled handsets were late to market, and when they did...
Research In Motion (RIM) and Handspring have staked out ground in the wirelessly enabled device market with their BlackBerry and Treo devices. Palm says it plans to have the Tungsten W, the handheld computer maker's combination phone, email device...
Previously, only PDAs with bigger screens and full web search capability, such as the Treo or BlackBerry, could do browser-based searching. Now any WAP-enabled phone, which includes most mobile phones with a colour screen, can do web searches.
But addiction to the BlackBerry - dubbed the 'CrackBerry' on account of users breaking out in a sweat if they are separated from their device for more than a few minutes - remains strong for the other half of the CIO Jury, with one even emailing...
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