WAP - A New Technology Gives New Dimension for Your Mobile Phone

                                                                                         

WAP or Wireless Application Protocol adds a new dimension to the Internet mobile technology. The mobile phone that supports WAP, you can book tickets, order food and check your bank account anytime. Even when you are stuck in traffic and waiting for someone, you can recharge yourself with thrilling games on your mobile…. complete mobility, the World Wide Web with you all the time. WAP technology also offers services such as downloading entire phone books and new, improved ways if controlling outgoing and incoming calls. All these services make the mobile telephony even easier.

To access WAP services you need a WAP enabled product. Beside the WAP compatibility, WAP products have a large full graphics display and include a micro browser. The purpose of Wireless Application Protocol is for mobile phones to be able to communicate with a server installed in the mobile phone network. The WAP technology brings Internet communication and telecommunication together. All new technologies faces problems of questions and hesitations and that also same for WAP technology. The technology is just two years old and founded by a company called ‘Unwired Planet’.

How the System Works?

• Make a request in WML (Wireless Markup Language), a language derived from HTML especially for wireless network characteristics.
• Then the request is passed to a WAP gateway that retrieves the information from an Internet server either in standard HTML format or preferably directly prepared for wireless terminals using WML.
• The information then passes to the WAP client through WAP Gateway using mobile network services, which are available and most appropriate.


Advantages of WAP

• You can get all the detailed weather report.
• WAP technology makes it possible for multi-party communication.
• Checking your horoscope everyday.
• In your WAP phone you have every Yellow Pages directory of the world at your fingertips.
• The automatic WAP based stockbroker tells you the price of current stock.
• Make the globe more constrict. You will always in touch with news at home anywhere else in the world. WAP-enabled mobile phones gives you access to all categories of up-to-the-minute local or international news.
• Through WAP technology you can always entertain yourself at any place. There are online sites, online games and many more.

Disadvantages of WAP

• Cost is high.
• Do not have a packet-based for long time.
• Limited size of RAM and ROM
• Limited power supply
• Low bandwidth
• Difficult to keep the phones up-to-date with new WAP services.

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