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Topic: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

In the dim and distant past I seem to remember someone posting a picture of their mobile phone that was surfing the PunBB forums via WAP.

I've looked all over and can't find the picture, but that doesn't really matter - my question is, how good is WAP on colour phones for example these days?

Also, I'm very interested in starting to create Java applications for a mobile phone (in J2ME?) - is this going to take off with the advent of connection to the internet via WAP or Bluetooth connections?

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Rickard, have you made the "Redirect page" time shorter?

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Admin/Options -> Redirect time

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

I was the one posting those pictures, the reason you can't find them is because the hardrive they was on broke.

First: Don't make wap-pages, it's hopeless smile
make XHTML-pages, they are more like ordinary HTML, and works on most color-phones.

and yes, J2ME is java for mobile phones, It doesn't work that well on my celluar (Sonyericsson T610), but I think it works pretty well on nokia phones.

And here is the nice pictures! smile

http://hem.bredband.net/b249863/pun01.jpg
http://hem.bredband.net/b249863/pun02.jpg
http://hem.bredband.net/b249863/pun03.jpg
http://hem.bredband.net/b249863/pun04.jpg

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Yas! Thank you :D

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Impressive smile

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7 Reply by Louis (edited by CSpotkill 2004-02-03 05:26)

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Turbonallen wrote:

First: Don't make wap-pages, it's hopeless smile
make XHTML-pages, they are more like ordinary HTML, and works on most color-phones.

You can find plenty of PDA/SmartPhone-browser emuation software online, but most phones just take HTML these days, WAP being a useless technology with better rendering provided by smart phones and PDAs.

Also, Opera's Small-Screen Rendering(tm) is available in their desktop browser for testing, just open a Web page in Opera 7 for Windows and hit Shift+F11. The Opera browser is available for Nokia's 3650/7650/N-Gage and for Sony Ericsson's P800/P900, as well as others.

Here are some tips on Authoring for Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) ...

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Re: Mobile Phone/WAP Query

Hmmm and how's that with cookies, are they accepted by phones nowadays?