Wireless Domains
Reflecting a relatively new market, wireless development must take into account the mish mash of standards and proprietary extensions, both in software and hardware. If you're developing wireless applications for the consumer market, there's a lot of per-vendor idiosyncrasies to consider. If you're an IT developer for a company that has selected devices from one or two vendors, your job is going to be much easier.
The good news is that there are only two major wireless technologies in the entire world: WAP and i-mode. Each of these phone standards supports a markup language and, in yet more good news, both standards are headed toward supporting XHTML Basic as a presentation language.
WAP Phones, WAP Gateways
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