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The latest Sweeney Research (SR) found that 20 percent of respondents had visited MySpace via mobile, and 15 percent were frequent users of the site, visiting more than once a day. According to MySpace, its internal showed around 150,000 Australians visited the MySpace Mobile WAP sites in December 2008. Many WordPress blogs and WordPress blog hosting companies use Mobile Plugins that let you display your blog or a site on a mobile device such as a Blackberry.
The latest SR shows that Australians are using their mobile phones to go online for music (43 percent), games (33 percent) and sport (32 percent). They are also sharing photos (70 percent), ringtones (46 percent) and music (46 percent) via their mobile when they are online.
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Move beyond voice
5 Dec 2008Mobile phone owners are embracing a multitude of mobile services these days. In addition to making and receiving calls, the latest mobile phones offer a lot of features like built-in camera, games, text messaging, internet connectivity through GPRS, Bluetooth, etc. Currently, text messaging is catching on with a more than half of the population. Better mobile handsets play a major part in encouraging consumers to try text and to make this an easier activity for them. This technology has changed the way people interact with mobile phones. Text messaging is indeed a simple yet powerful communication medium for mobile phone users.
Another type of mobile messaging which is gaining popularity is MMS (Multimedia messaging service). The growth of MMS will mirror the growth of camera phones. MMS allow you to send picture messages and share it with others. As the network of MMS capable handsets grows, there is an increase in sending pictures between phones by MMS.
Mobile phone companies such as Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and many more have seen their profits sore since the introduction of camera mobile phones. Various networks like Orange, 3 Mobile, T Mobile, O2, Vodafone, Virgin etc offer free camera phone with special deals. The larger colour screen of camera phones makes the mobile phone an interesting and leisure device. These phones allow you to take an excellent photo and set it as the background image in your phone.
WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) adoption has partly been slowed historically by an unattractive, slow and text based user interface. WAP allows mobile phone users to have access to information services. The WAP enabled mobile phone can be connected to the internet instantly and can access any internet service immediately. Colour camera phones tend to support GPRS connectivity and also icon based graphical interface. This makes WAP a far more convincing user experience, and hence is increasing strong WAP adoption. All these features make a mobile phone more than just a device for handling calls.
Stay Connected With Cell Phones
In: Mobile
5 Dec 2008Gone are the days when phones were used only for voice communication. Advancement in cell phone technology now allows you to send text messages, take pictures, set reminders for daily chores and pay your bills. With the wide range of features available, choosing the right cell phone can become quite mind-boggling.
Currently, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung are the market share leaders for the global cell phone market, and offer a wide selection of cell phones to meet every person’s needs. Cell phone costs range from less than $100 to more than $400, depending on the specifications. Your choice of cell phone should be dictated by the features you would like your cell phone to have. The first thing to consider is the cell phone size. As your cell phone will be carried with you most of the time, a slim and lightweight cell phone is the best choice. Cell phones also come with or without flip covers, and nowadays all cell phones allow text-messaging services.
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Why WAP isn’t as bad as people say
In: Wap
5 Dec 2008It’s unlucky that the acronym for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has such an unfortunate rhyme! Even more unlucky for WAP, it burst onto the mobile communication scene with lavish promises from the Mobile Operators (you know who you are) of ‘The Internet on your Mobile’ and ‘Take the Internet with you’.
That really was a load of WAP.
So, a few years on we can ask, like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ‘WAP, what is it good for’?
More than you might think, given the current deafening silence from those same Mobile Operators.
The rise (and rise) of SMS is instructive. This has gone from nowhere to everywhere with practically no promotion from the networks. Type SMS into Google and you get 52 million hits! In China in 2003, 220 Billion SMS messages were sent. During 2003 in the UK alone, 30 Billion were sent, which equates to 500 for every man, woman and child in the entire country! What is going on here?
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Spice up the mobile experience
In: Mobile Apps
5 Dec 2008As we make advancement in the field of communication, every thing related to it have improved in leaps and bound. The mobile phone that started its journey in a brick sized case with just the basic feature of making and receiving call have now evolved into high configuration multimedia computers. Keeping up with the upward climb of mobile phones, the mobile phone accessories too have rapidly updated.
Mobile Phone Accessories being the easiest and cheapest way to upgrade your mobile, is hugely popular across all sections of mobile users. Most popular mobile phone accessories includes external memory cards and Bluetooth headsets. Popularity of the former is due to the fact that it allows a mobile phone user to carry all his files like media files and other office application on a memory card which are getting cheaper by the day. A comparatively cheap music phone fitted with a decent memory card is a quite tempting option against a costlier mp3 player.
A wireless Bluetooth headset comes in very hand to make and receive phone calls as well as listen to music when you’re driving. High capacity batteries that considerably increases the stand up time a mobile too are very popular among all users. Apart from that, charger adapter of different handsets are very necessary when the standard kit doesn’t include a charger that fits to a particular socket. The idea of charging your phone in the car with a Car kit adapter is gaining popularity.
Like the ever changing face of technology, the mobile phone accessories too are highly dynamic. Once popular external cameras for phone are now obsolete due to high definition integrated cameras but at the same time, futuristic Bluetooth GPS receiver, flexible keyboards and high definition multi-purpose speaker systems have came to the fore and now are hugely popular.
Mobile phone accessories, just like the mobile phone itself have covered a great distances in very less time and have been instrumental in determining the direction of the progress of the mobile phone.
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Wap is Crap
In: Wap
5 Dec 2008WAP is crap and the growing epidemic of WAPlash are two of the familiar taunts repeated by users of phones with wireless application protocol browsers, which allow users to access so-called Web content on their phones.
WAP has received a bad rap, not only from the media, but also from users of WAP phones who choose not to access data on them. Less than 20 percent of Americans with phones that have WAP browsers actually ever access WAP sites, according to Jupiter Communications analyst Lucas Graves. Only 10 percent of Sprint PCS’ customers access the “wireless Web,” according to Jay Highly, vice president of business marketing for Sprint PCS.
It’s cumbersome to input data on a phone’s keypad and read from such a tiny screen, analysts say. Data is transmitted slowly at 9 kbs and the user pays airtime for the content.
However, don’t blame WAP as a technology for the lack of interest in the phones, analysts say. Perhaps WAP developers are to blame for over-hyping the technology and then receiving a black eye for it, but some think the real limitation of WAP is the lack of compelling content written in its wireless markup language (WML).
On the other hand, software developer Openwave has 14 million subscribers worldwide — which means there’s little interest when compared to the 70 million WAP-enabled handsets that have been sold.
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Opera Mini transforms how people use the Web
In: Mobile Apps
5 Dec 2008This week Opera Software celebrates the one-year anniversary of Opera Mini. Within its first year, Opera Mini has changed the way millions of people access and view the Web on their mobile phone. Designed to work with almost any mobile phone, Opera Mini is available free from http://www.operamini.com.
Opera Mini lets you take the Web with you. Instead of limited WAP content, you are free to browse the Web the same way you would at home on your laptop or desktop computer. You can use Opera Mini to post pictures to MySpace, search the Web using Yahoo!, shop on Amazon or check Gmail.
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Wap Basics
In: Wap
5 Dec 2008WAP Homepages
WAP homepages are not very different from HTML homepages. The markup language used for WAP is WML (Wireless Markup Language). WML uses tags – just like HTML – but the syntax is stricter and conforms to the XML 1.0 standard.
WML pages have the extension *.WML, just like HTML pages have the extension *.HTML.
WML Tags
WML is mostly about text. Tags that would slow down the communication with handheld devices are not a part of the WML standard. The use of tables and images is strongly restricted.
Since WML is an XML application, all tags are case sensitive ( is not the same as ), and all tags must be properly closed.
WML Decks and Cards
WML pages are called DECKS. They are constructed as a set of CARDS, related to each other with links. When a WML page is accessed from a mobile phone, all the cards in the page are downloaded from the WAP server. Navigation between the cards is done by the phone computer – inside the phone – without any extra access trips to the server.
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What is Wap?
In: Mobile Apps| Wap
5 Dec 2008The wireless industry came up with the idea of WAP. The point of this standard was to show internet contents on wireless clients, like mobile phones.
- WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol
- WAP is an application communication protocol
- WAP is used to access services and information
- WAP is inherited from Internet standards
- WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones
- WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers
- WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices
- WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)
- WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application
People on the move need services, information and entertainment that can keep up with them. With access to mobile services, decisions and interactions happen here and now. The value of mobile services to end-users is boosted by three separate elements: personalization, time-sensitivity and location awareness. Combining these three effectively adds even more value.
Wireless application protocol (WAP) is a protocol that has successfully established a de facto standard for the way in which wireless technology is used for Internet access. WAP technology has been optimized for information delivery to thin-client devices, such as mobile phones.
Mobile services powered by Nokia and WAP have been widely accepted by users. By 2004, the number of WAP users in Western Europe is estimated to grow to well over 200 million (source: Cahners, In-Stat Group). In part, this growth is driven by the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), WAP 2.0, Bluetooth and Mobile Commerce.
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WAP 2.0 is a re-engineering of WAP using a cut-down version of XHTML with end-to-end HTTP (i.e., dropping the gateway and custom protocol suite used to communicate with it). A WAP gateway can be used in conjunction with WAP 2.0; however, in this scenario, it is used as a standard proxy server. The WAP gateway’s role would then shift from one of translation to adding additional information to each request. This would be configured by the operator and could include telephone numbers, location, billing information, and handset information.
XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP), the markup language defined in WAP 2.0, is made to work in mobile devices. It is a subset of XHTML and a superset of XHTML Basic. A version of cascading style sheets (CSS) called WAP CSS is supported by XHTML MP.
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