Re: OTish: WAP Phones...

["Jason Lee" <jasonjlee@xxxxxxx>]

Fair enough!

Sometimes when I've had a day of bad drivers and bad tech support, I kinda
get a little unhinged.

<RANT ON>

I use adsl (as well as tele2), and after alcatel released their new SMP
driver, which they wouldn't beta release because they only release working
drivers, it BSOD win2k on me. So you could say I'm on a bad day :(

I'm just a little sick of companies (BT/ALCATEL)(CREATIVE)(MATROX) that
have
lots of money for advertising (like BTCELLNET with WAP) a product and just
don't deliver.

Funny how the billing systems never go down though the services do...

<RANT OFF>



----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Stevens" <adam@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OTish: WAP Phones...


> > But maybe in HA terms, with customised pages, to turn on a
> > light...? I think
> > WAP could handle that, but then so can email? So why not send the
email
> > using the wap browser, and not bother investing time and energy
creating
a
> > wap page, wap server, wap site?
>
> I really don't want to get too involved in a "virtue of WAP"
discussion,
> mainly because I agree with most of your points... In many ways WAP is
> disappointing, and is only a temporary answer to a question which not
many
> people were asking in the first place (temporary because it'll die off
as
> soon as decent mobile bandwidth and truly portable screens become a
> reality)... It's also true that I very rarely do anything with WAP
other
> than HA.
>
> However, in my case, WAP was a clean, and cheap solution to a couple
of
> remote access issues I had.  Cheap because setting up a WAP server
costs
> nothing if you have a 24/7 Internet link, and the technical
> knowledge/interest to do so.
>
> The main advantage of WAP over a remote e-mail solution is the ability
for
> two-way communication.  I don't generally use WAP to switch on lights
and
> the like (with the exception of the alarm)... What's the point... if
I'm
> out, then the PC handles all that itself.  However I do like the
ability
to
> check on the status of the house remotely.  WAP gives me the ability
to do
> that from anywhere at anytime.
>
> Anyway, enough said! - For me, WAP was there, so I used it... :-)
>
> Adam.
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