A Wireless Device Primer
Before you delve further into the topic of wireless, it’s important to familiarize yourself with the types of devices for which you’ll be developing. In this book, you learn wireless application development using the WAP technology (more on WAP in a moment). Essentially, the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is a technology that enables the transfer of data to wireless devices.
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WAP offers several advantages over other competing wireless technologies. The following are some of the most important aspects of WAP:
WAP is an open standard (and therefore vendor independent).
WAP is network-standard independent.
WAP contains a transport mechanism, optimized for wireless data bearers.
For mobile phones to be WAP-enabled, the ...
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