According to a recent report from Forrester, ninety percent of the e-commerce executives interviewed plan to launch Internet sites designed for mobile phones with tiny displays and thin connections. Forrester-analysts stress the fact that the only thing which can slow down this development is restricted user access. In other words, smart cell phones will become the dominant means of accessing the Internet in some years, when Web-capable phones will make up 79 percent of the unit volume of Internet appliances, according to a report by Semico Research. USA A survey by New York-based Cap Gemini America and Corechange Inc of Boston is predicting that Internet access via mobile phones will rise from 3 percent to a massive 78 percent of the US Internet population within 12 months. If the survey is correct then there will be about 72 million WAP phones sold in North America within the year, compared to a projected 45 million PCs.
Internet is still the best when it comes to exchange of information.
But if your only interest is to be kept updated on the stock market or the latest sport reviews, WAP is the fastest and easiest way to be online. The e-commerce business WAP is even better than shopping on the Internet. As long as the mobile phones are tiny, practical and easy to carry in your pocket, the WAP screen has to be small. And, the screen quality is not as good. You can send pictures with WAP, but if they are too complicated they will merely appear as blurs.