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Browsing on your phone
How can you go browsing on your phone's tiny little screen? You use the
WAP protocol. WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol, and it's a
way to build Web sites so that they're ideally formatted for those tiny little
screens. I'm telling you about them so that you'll be aware that there is a
way to surf the Internet from a phone, and there is a place to go exploring
for wireless alerts.
If you want to browse with WAP, start with Google.
Google WAP
Google WAP (wap.google.com) is very basic. You're given a search box and
the option to either search the Web as a whole or search just what Google
calls the “Mobile Web”—in other words, WAP-enabled sites. If you want
to try this site, be sure to access it from your phone—Google can oten tell
what kind of browser you're using and will format the page appropriately.
Results only come ive at a time and do not include snippets or page infor-
mation, but rather just page links. his is annoying when you're relying on
snippets for page information, so if you want to search Google WAP, take
extra care to make sure your searches are as speciic as possible.
As you might imagine, Google WAP is just the tip of the WAP iceberg.
Check out the following WAP directories, all of which you can visit from
your browser, though the formatting might look a little diferent.
Tip
Want to visit a Wap site but don't want to ire up your phone to
do it? there are several Wap emulators available. I used WinWap
for this topic. It allows you to visit Wap sites from Windows and
see what they'd look like on your phone. You can get more infor-
mation on WinWap at winwap.com.
WAP Catalog
WAP Catalog (wapcatalog.com) has a searchable subject index of WAP
sites, though some categories only have one or two listings. his site also
has basic information on WAP browsing and pointers to more information
and resources.
 
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