Opinionated comments on mobile phone industry news
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Friday, July 30, 2004
WAP is dead, long live WAP!
By now all seem to consider WAP dead and gone, not realizing that to enable content services for the newer mobile phones supporting polyphonic and sampled ringtones, color pictures etc, WAP has to be used for the downloading of the content. Even though many services still use SMS for the ordering of content, SMS can't carry the amount of data such media files generate, so WAP is then used for the download. This is nothing a consumer really needs to care about (which is the way it should be), but when industry representatives declare WAP dead it's a different story.
An example is my own Abiro service, that uses WAP for both ordering and downloading of content: http://www.abiro.com.
An example is my own Abiro service, that uses WAP for both ordering and downloading of content: http://www.abiro.com.
