WAP explained: What actually is it?
Nowadays, we are able to reach on Smartphone over LTE with a Download speed of over 100 MBit/s. A few years ago, the Internet was limited to-speed on mobile phones to a few kBit/s. Mobile browsing was not only slow, but also expensive.
- A solution of the Problem of WAP, brought. The acronym stands for Wireless Application Protocol. With WAP should be optimized first-line sites for mobile phones with small Displays. Due to lower quantities of data, low costs and shorter resulted in wait times.
- Now WAP, however, has no great significance. Current Smartphones to open web pages, such as a Computer, via HTML , instead of WAP. Only a few websites also support access via WAP.
Nokia mobile phones with WAP
Wireless Application Protocol: WAP 1.0 to 2.0
- The first Version WAP 1.0 was released in the year 1997. The operators of the websites were not able to provide by means of WAP your websites only for computers but also for mobile phones. Instead of HTML for Computer Wireless Markup Language (WML) was used.
- The data of the accessed websites are running a so-called WAP-Gateway, where the data and the phone redirected to be compressed. As a result, the costly data usage, and the charging time drops to reduce. In contrast to the usual HTML pages, all images and Videos of the sites are missing in the rule.
- From WAP 1.2 and later also the technology WAP-Push was used. Via WAP-Push, especially ringtones were downloaded to cell phones. By SMS the Download were sent Links to download the ringtone directly via WAP. Also, for the sending of MMS-messages WAP is used.
- A few years later WAP 2.0 was introduced. With WAP 1.0 is the new Standard had to do only a little. Like a Computer, could mobile phones to access via HTML in the normal web pages. Instead of HTML for mobile phones-optimized variant of XHTML was used.
- Thanks to UMTS and EDGE was the mobile Internet much faster. Thus, it makes finally sense to transfer images or even Videos using the WAP 2.0.
In the next tip we will explain to you what the WAP Billing is.
