WAP <-> Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:58:49PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> Does your browser show a M$ logo when starting ?

No this one shows OpenWave, the previous phone showed phone.com.

> My GSM phone does html via provider's proxy (requires no effort on my side
> apart from typing urls - groan). And support could not tell me how to type
> '~' although the phone displays it ok. Argh. Browsing sites like Google on
> a 64x128 (I think) b/w lcd screen is 'interesting' but it works.

Yeah I think that is how most WAP phones try to do things (through a
proxy) which sometimes does an OK job of random sites, and other times it
is useless.

> Ah, ok, thanks. I tried with the simple phone I have. I can only see text
> (like in Lynx), unless its wbmp.

That is normal.  Some newer phones can do PNG and JPG as well.

Lennart Sorensen
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