It all comes back to the basic concept that there will be a billion wireless Internet users in 5 years. This is a market worth taking risk and Phone.com is the pure play. That is why it goes up. Each day, we get a reminder.
These numbers don't even go into the fact that perhaps every car will come with a computer that is WAP oriented in the near future, and surely all commercial vehicles in 2 years.
There is also no way anyone could say this is a technology with no purpose. This is actually the killer ap of the century.
It's just so big and WAP will be the play for the for seen future. PHCM is at the epicenter. This is stock to buy for your kids college fund.
Regards, Mark
Nokia WAP phone volumes to rise quickly
HELSINKI, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Finnish Nokia , the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday that shipments of its 7100 media phone for the GSM standard would rise quickly after the planned launch this month.
Nokia says its 7100 series will be the first one-piece mobile terminal on the market giving access to specially designed Internet services using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
''The first deliveries will start at the end of September as planned,'' Nokia spokeswoman Liisa Nyyssonen told Reuters.
''The first phones will leave factories then, and at this stage we will reach large volumes very quickly.''
Delays in the development of the WAP standard have forced Nokia to postpone to September its launch of the 7100 series for GSM from the initial plan of starting shipments by end-June.
Nokia also said it would in the first half of next year start shipping models of the 7100-series handset for the GSM 1900 systems and for the tri-mode AMPS/TDMA 800/TDMA 1900, which are used in the United States.
In its first-quarter report Nokia promised to introduce 7100 models for the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) and GSM 1900 standards this year, but did not say when they would be available.
WAP Service Broker Helps Wireless Operators Deliver Net Content
September 21, 1999 -- CMG Telecommunications announced its WAP Service Broker, a hardware and software combination that the company claims gives wireless service providers the ability to easily personalize, package and deliver Web-based information.
The WAP Service Broker is WAP 1.1-compliant and includes features such as one-time provisioning of preferred Internet sites and services. It offers users a customized home page based on their interests and secure management of all Internet links.
It is designed to work with all WAP-enabled phones as well as older, non-WAP phones. For operators, CMG says the package includes integrated directory services, encryption and interfaces to the operator's billing service and system management tools.
WAP Service Broker is currently in trials in Denmark, Ireland and Singapore, with US and Australian trials scheduled to start in about 60 days. The software is integrated in Compaq Alpha servers. The company gave no pricing information.
Mobile telephones looking more 007-ish by the day
yomiuri.co.jp
Masaharu Asaba Yomiuri Shimbun Senior Editor
More than 50 million mobile phones and personal handy-phone systems have been sold in Japan. The number will soon surpass the nation's 60 million land-line telephones.
Although mobile phones are becoming lighter and easier to handle, their use is still limited to conversation and e-mail.
In Scandinavian countries, however, they have a whole range of new functions and are becoming a necessary part of life.
Since mobile phones will be essential telecommunication tools in the 21st century, Japan should devise new, amusing ways of using them to create a "mobile-phone culture."
In the most recent film of the popular "007" series, titled "Tomorrow Never Dies," James Bond uses an Ericsson mobile phone that enables him to start up the engine of his car through remote control.
The phone used in the movie was produced by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer. It was equipped not only with the remote-control system, but also a scanner capable of reading documents and instantly transmitting them electronically.
Of course, Ericsson does not mass-produce phones with such sophisticated functions. But mobile phones are widely used by Scandinavians in their daily lives. People use them to start automatic car-washers from inside the car, or to buy soft drinks from vending machines without using cash.
At game centers and amusement parks, the phones are used to operate game machines and enjoy rides. It is also possible to use automatic shoe polishers and train-ticket vending machines in the same way.
Thus, the mobile phones function as "credit cards," with charges included in the user's phone bill.
In electronic trading through the Internet, transactions are protected through codes, but that is unnecessary in the case of mobile phones.
Finland, with a population of only about 5 million, produces more mobile phones than any other country in the world. Nokia Group, a Finnish telecommunications equipment manufacturer, sells 1.6 trillion yen worth of mobile phones annually, accounting for 10 percent of the country's total exports.
Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the new Linux PC operating system, is also a product of Finland's digital culture.
Japanese mobile phones provide uninterrupted communication and high-quality sound, allow the transfer of money between bank accounts and offer shopping information. These functions are not unique, as personal computers have the same capabilities.
Two years from now, the third-generation code division multiple access (CDMA) wide-band system will be introduced in Japan. It will be able to quickly transmit massive amounts of information, such as animated cartoons, and is likely to touch off another information revolution.
Ideas on how to put the system into commercial use and the kinds of CDMA products produced will determine the direction of the market. If a mobile television-telephone were equipped with a car navigation system and translation function, it would be extremely useful for overseas travel.
Another possibility amid the aging of society is a device incorporating health management, welfare and recreation functions to permit easy communication with elderly people living alone.
Future sales of mobile phones will depend on the functions that are added to them. If they come to resemble the "007" model, consumers are sure to take notice.
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