Summary
The most popular wireless data applications are messagingservices. These originated in GSM, but have spread to other technologies. They provide a very limited form of email.
The wireless Web lags far behind the fixed Internet in terms of both the data rates achievable and the power of devices used to access it.
All existing techniques for presenting data on mobile devices miss out on some of the Web's most popular features, such as color and multimedia.
There are two competing open standards for wireless sites: Compact HTML and WAP. Compact HTML was developed by Web designers, WAP by mobile phone manufacturers.
WAP is a complete stack of protocols, not just a markup language. But it has a significant and perhaps deliberate security flaw, ...
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