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HOWTO access the Web with a WAP browser (Google WAP proxy)
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| John Navas 2006-10-12, 3:33 pm |
| A big limitation of WAP browsers in most cell phones is that they can't
access most regular Web sites.
One solution, given a Java(J2ME)-capable cell phone, is to download the
free Opera Mini Web browser, which does a very good job of translating
the regular WAP to small screens.
<http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/>
A more direct solution is to use the Google WAP Proxy, which likewise
does a very good job of translating the regular Web to WAP format
suitable for many current cell phones. You get this automatically when
you do a WAP search with Google, but you can also access it directly
<http://google.com/gwt/n>, either with a regular Web browser or with a
cell phone WAP browser.
Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to bookmark links to regular
Web pages accessed with the Google WAP proxy. A work-around is to
capture these links with a regular Web browser, and put them on your own
WAP page (e.g., at free http://tagtag.com).
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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ Cingu...less_FA
Q>
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| John Navas 2006-10-15, 10:33 pm |
| [TYPO CORRECTED]
A big limitation of WAP browsers in most cell phones is that they can't
access most regular Web sites.
One solution, given a Java(J2ME)-capable cell phone, is to download the
free Opera Mini Web browser, which does a very good job of translating
the regular Web to small screens.
<http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/>
A more direct solution is to use the Google WAP Proxy, which likewise
does a very good job of translating the regular Web to WAP format
suitable for many current cell phones. You get this automatically when
you do a WAP search with Google, but you can also access it directly
<http://google.com/gwt/n>, either with a regular Web browser or with a
cell phone WAP browser.
Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to bookmark links to regular
Web pages accessed with the Google WAP proxy. A work-around is to
capture these links with a regular Web browser, and put them on your own
WAP page (e.g., at free http://tagtag.com).
--
Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ Cingu...less_FA
Q>
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