Straw Poll - WAP and other mobile technologies

[Phil Payne]

> Phil,
>
> Regarding your WAP poll...
>
> I use an Ericsson T39m.  I'm US based, and the I use VoiceStream
> (soon to be re-labeled as some variation of T-mobile from what I hear.)

66 different servers accessed the WAP.HTML page yesterday.  Last week it was 88, and the total
so far is 121.  The above report is one of three I've had from the USA - the scale of GSM
usage has been a big surprise.

11 different WAP gateways (i.e., telephone service providers such as Vodafone, T-Mobile,
Orange) accessed the WAP pages.  The 'Reference' deck was loaded 51 times and the MAC12 pinout
96 times.

3 T39m users (not including me), three 7110 users, two 6210 users, two C35 users and two other
Communicator users have sent reports in private email. No one has reported any problems,
though the server statistics suggest at least one phone doesn't have enough cache to keep the
MAC12D index and data cards in memory at the some time.

I'm now trying to work out how to implement something like a component locator in WAP.  See
http://www.isham-research.com/quattro/wiring/Typ85/85_lookup.html for an example of what I
mean.  There are also mb_lookup.html and rr_lookup.html pages for the later ur-quattros.
Ideas as to how to implement this via WAP very welcome.

Future status reports will be posted on the web page at
http://www.isham-research.com/quattro/wap.html

I have to say I'm disappointed by the reaction to this effort in some quarters.  As others
have pointed out, it took a lot of unpaid work to get this far.  Perhaps some people should
download some of the files and see how complex they are - then make a contribution themselves
of similar magnitude.

And if I ever see a 'for sale' post to the main lists without an immediate complaint from
these same quarters (given that there is a 'Marketplace' section) I might suspect just a
little hypocrisy.

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  Phil Payne
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