Designed for access to Internet and advanced telephony services from mobile phones Pays intelligent sensitivity to the constraints of these devices like small display, limited keys on the keypad, no pointer device like mouse, etc.
- DoCoMo of Japan developed a language called compact Hyper Text Markup Language (C HTML) and a gateway which can be used for accessing the Internet.
- Unwired Planet of USA developed a comprehensive framework including browser, gateway and markup language. The markup language was called Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) and the protocol was called Handheld Device Transport Protocol (HDTP).
- Ericsson of Europe developed Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol (ITTP) with the intent of making it easy for call control and adding services to mobile telephony platforms.
- Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet joined hands to launch the WAP Forum which is now known as Open Mobile Alliance.
- The goal of WAP Forum was to produce a refined, license-free protocol, independent of the underlying air-link standard and it inherited its main characteristics and functionality from HDML, HDTP, Smart Messaging specification based on TTML, ITTP and NBS.
q Networks
for WAP
There are diffrent networks are used as given belows.There are used Network as GPRS,GSM and others.We can used that network for run our application.
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All GSM modes.
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GPRS.
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CDMA IS-95 and cdma2000.
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TDMA IS-136.
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i-mode.
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3G systems: IMT-2000, UMTS, W-CDMA and
Wideband IS-95.
