South Africa cellular technology web site, African Cellular - at www.cellular.co.za - has launched the world`s first online WAP browser, allowing visitors to surf the growing number of (Wireless Application Protocol) web sites on the Internet as if they were using a WAP-enabled cellphone.
WAP is the new Mobile Internet standard for cellphones that allows users with WAP cellphones to browse information and purchase from special WAP websites whose content is specially formatted for rapid display on the smaller screens of mobile phones.
The new online WAP browser, developed with Gelon of Norway, emulates the worlds first WAP cellphone, the Nokia 7110.
The WAP market is set to explode in South Africa as well as around the world. ARC estimate that there will be over 400m WAP users by 2003, part of the 1 billion cellphone users around the world.
What makes this new online WAP browsing system unique is that visitors to www.cellular.co.za do not have to download any software to view WAP content. It`s simply a matter of typing in the correct address and the online browser will fetch the WAP-formatted content and display it live on the browser as if it were fetched by a user with a Nokia 7110 WAP cellphone.
This allows visitors to navigate through WAP sites they are interested in via a normal PC without having to purchase a WAP phone and incur online cellular call charges to view the content.
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