Why isn't everyone WAPing
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I've just bought my nokia 7110 Wap phone and find that the WAP feature are absolutely brilliant.
Nobody on this forum seems to be talking about it!
I mean you can access your email from it without resorting to a PC + a million other uses. There are so many WAP sites out there and they are ever expanding.
You have to experience WAP to know what I'm talking about. Everything from the weather to news to TV listings can be found on it and on my tariff, I don't even pay for it when using it as part of the inclusive minutes.
Come on write in a discuss it!
Nobody on this forum seems to be talking about it!
I mean you can access your email from it without resorting to a PC + a million other uses. There are so many WAP sites out there and they are ever expanding.
You have to experience WAP to know what I'm talking about. Everything from the weather to news to TV listings can be found on it and on my tariff, I don't even pay for it when using it as part of the inclusive minutes.
Come on write in a discuss it!
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I've had my 7110e for a few months and after the shock of very expensive phone bills (that are decreasing) I am more than happy about it.
Some people have been very harsh on it, and some still are, but it serves the purpose that I bought it for - checking emails, getting the latest entertainment/headline news.
Yes the mobile networks shouldn't have advertised it as being the Internet on your mobile as it isn't.
I love it and I have found a cool little Hangman game! (http:www.topstudy.com/wap/game/hang/)
What tarrif/network are you on Genie? (going by the name I would imagine BT Cellnet)
This tariff is great 'cos you can use WAP services free everyday for 50 minutes, even the weekend. After your 50 minutes you pay 5p per minute which is not too bad.
I can even connect it to my computer or PDA and use it as a modem to connect to the web, again 50 minutes free each day for this too. So I get completely free internet access with no call charges using this.
This tariff is great 'cos you can use WAP services free everyday for 50 minutes, even the weekend. After your 50 minutes you pay 5p per minute which is not too bad.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Just to say that if you use WAP after your 50 minutes don't bother paying Orange 5p a minute join someone like mviva (www.mviva.co.uk) and your WAP calls are only 1p per minute after 7pm! (weekdays)
Great times. No WiFi, 3G or 4G then.
How's EDGE?
Thought it was the bees knees at the time
SNAKE!
I can remember (vaguely) creating a WAP site for my own website, and wondering why it was so incredibly complicated - with a series of cards and separate pages that reminded me of teletext services.
I was so glad once phones began to display ordinary HTML pages properly, even if in just black and white and mostly, if not only, text.
WAP was a waste of time IMO. The files you had to create were unnecessarily large, and there were so many ways to break them - so they didn't work at all, or more commonly, worked differently on different models.
Come back and ask me again in another 14 years what I think and maybe I'll be more nostalgic and say how wonderful it was!
I just thought it was a bit slow and awkward to use
This has got to be one of the oldest thread bumps ever surely!
Without WAP, we would not have smart phones and fast mobile internet today.
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