> At the moment, I don't think any wireless phone would do regular networking.
> I believe they would not do that in the future either. Closest to that would
> be a bluetooth capability.
>
> There will be however IP's assigned to the phones by the operator when the
> operator starts supporting 3G networks and beyond. Also, if I remember
> correctly wap2 equipped phones will support IP addressing when ever it gets
> finalized. Currently all wap traffic goes through the operator's wap gateway
> and depending on the gateway, some wap sites work or they don't work. It is
> a real wap developers nightmare. It is not enough that wap support in phones
> are implemented with the attitude "it's close enough", but in addition wap
> gateways are made with the same attitude, and of course each operator wants
> to make their own "tweaks" to break the last bit of the standard.
Cool! thanks for the info!
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