iPhone: WAP is dead?

iphonebrowser.jpg Who has had the ability and patience to see the last of Steve Jobs Keynote, which presents the new Apple iPhone, will certainly have found it fascinating wonder of the last multi-touch technology of Cupertino.
Fantasies to "Minority Report" apart (the reality often exceeds the imagination really), what struck me most, even if already present in many smart-phones on the market for some time, is the ability to surf the Internet like a home PC. The iPhone comes in direct competition with traditional phones, not smart-phone market today. Apple has introduced its solution for mobile, following his classical guidelines: simplicity - so - mass distribution, as happened with the iPod.

If the smart-phone market today, those with Windows Mobile on board for example, allow you to surf the Internet, however, are perceived by the "mass market" as a hybrid between a phone and a notebook. In short, something different from the "phone" every day. To date, a phone is a "cell" in the sense that Web browsing is relegated to a few - some do not even know that you can do it - (also seen costs) with solutions very far from those of a home PC for the size of display, the speed of bandwidth, the difficulty of interaction with the simulated keyboard or mouse, etc. ...

However, almost quietly, it seems to me that there is a small revolution in the act of considerable interest, at least for Web developers

Being able to navigate a site from the "street", without changing the technology used is a huge step forward. To date some reality on the Web are double - if not triple: WAP, Flash Lite (version for Windows Mobile or Symbian) and Internet standards. Bring together and unify the browsing technologies is an important achievement, the antechamber to the true distribution of navigaione via mobile.
The WAP, for example, as has tried to emulate the real Web has failed miserably. This reminds me of the digital terrestrial!

The Net TV, for example, in this new situation may find a fertile ground to flourish even more than a few years ago. So there are all the conditions to give further impetus to the second youth of the Internet. On the one hand, new forms of aggregation of the community and the other the opportunity to take advantage of these "experiences" as well as at home even in the "mobility" utter.

2 comments to "iPhone: WAP is dead?"

  1. July 19, 2008 luca:

    I was told that there is a software for wap browsing with iphone
    you know something well you have some tips for MMS
    Thanks to resent

  2. September 15, 2008 Italian Manual iPhone :

    A standard like WAP still has a lot to give, at least for another few years ...

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