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Has anyone here got a WAP phone? Or at least know someone with one?
Is so what is it like? Do you use it a lot? Is it expensive? It's just I got an email from Genie Internet trying to give me one free or a top of the range one for 1/2 price! I want to wait until July though as Sony are launching a gorgeous flip one! |
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WAP? It will never catch on. Who would want to browse the web on their phone?
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Hahahahahaha
Does WAP even exist any more? It was pants when it did exist. |
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Finbaar... this thread is 14 years old.
Wtf. |
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I remember the excitement when trouble gave me free Internet for a day.
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gangnam style!!!, Wap...wap.WAP!!!
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Finbaar... this thread is 14 years old.
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I had a Cellnet Trium Geo wap phone that took hours to dial up just to look at TV listings or weather forecasts lol
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![]() Knew this thread would take off after 14 years. National Rail still have a proper wap site that works at http://wap.nationalrail.co.uk but it's a bit too sophisticated for modern phones...had to dig out the N70 (which is still a bit too modern) to see it. |
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I remember the genie wap site. Wasn't the Cellnet dial up number 915000 or something like that? 10p a minute
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Always found the National Rail WAP site really useful - for example you could (and still can) bookmark the live departure boards for specific stations.
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Always found the National Rail WAP site really useful - for example you could (and still can) bookmark the live departure boards for specific stations.
along with all the details of departures for your chosen station. I think it even detects the location of the station you're at by GPS. Why would you want to load a WAP site to do what the app does a million times better?
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I remember the genie wap site. Wasn't the Cellnet dial up number 915000 or something like that? 10p a minute
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I remember getting a Nokia 3330 or something like that for WAP. It was basically a 3310 but with WAP.
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I remember being rather excited at being able to access the internet on my 3510i
Though it was rather disappointing considering there was literally nothing you could do with it. |
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Is the OP around to tell us whether they actually went for it - I have been on the edge of my seat for 14 years
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Finbaar... this thread is 14 years old.
Wtf. |
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The sad thing is it was such a technical question at the time no-one was able to answer
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Best thing I've read all day
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The real question is: how long did it take you to find this thread...
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About 5 seconds. I just went to the oldest thread. It was a good one.
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Is the OP around to tell us whether they actually went for it - I have been on the edge of my seat for 14 years
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Don't understand why resurrecting old threads is frowned on so much in these forums. Does it have a legacy in usenet conventions/protocols or something similar?
It can be very informative from a historical POV - in this case showing how far phone tech has come. |
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Don't understand why resurrecting old threads is frowned on so much in these forums. Does it have a legacy in usenet conventions/protocols or something similar?
It can be very informative from a historical POV - in this case showing how far phone tech has come. |
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There are still a lot of WAP sites around, when I had a Lumia 920 at launch some mobile sites wouldn't detect the phone properly and would redirect to a WAP version of the site.
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along with all the details of departures for your chosen station. I think it even detects the location of the station you're at by GPS. Why would you want to load a WAP site to do what the app does a million times better?