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RE: OTish: WAP Phones...


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  • Subject: RE: OTish: WAP Phones...
  • From: "Adam Stevens" <adam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:39:16 +0100
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> Seconded, WAP is generally useless. You know the cellnet adverts all
> switched to 'cartoony' type 3d, with clean payments and nice high rise
> appartments?

If I can just stick my oar in here a moment!...

WAP is not useless... It's just useless for what many people think they can
do with it! (eg, use it to "surf the web").

WAP is however *very* useful for what it was designed to do... a very low
bandwidth information system.  Hence it can be very useful for HA people. 
I
use WAP pretty extensively to dial directly into the house and monitor
various HA things... I can even set the alarm via WAP if I leave the house
without setting it (which used to happen *all* the time!).  With the
addition of SMS alerts, it can be a very usable system...

All I need to do now is think of a reason just way I'd *want* to draw the
curtains from a WAP device halfway round the world! :-)

Adam.



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