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"WAP Returns from the Grave"

companies find ways to make WAP work and pay

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WAP was one of the hyped technologies of the Internet bubble years. Despite early claims that it would allow users to surf the "mobile internet," URLs were difficult to key in, content was minimal, and the first phones were expensive and hard to use.But now payment systems using SMS have solved the problem of how to make money from the service, and better phones are making WAP sites easier to reach and richer in content.

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a better quote would might be

I think WAP is having a little bit of a renaissance

and then i shouldn't forget to mention that these analysts don't know the difference between i-mode and wap.

wap is defenetly something which is useable for sysadmins and handy kiddies but on the other hand you can life without it even in future.

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Whatever any article says Wap is not comming back, i've been there done that etc, today there is no reason why you should use wap, there is so much else you can use which saves you time and money when it comes to development for mobile communicators.