Calif. The pieces are already moving into place. Other carriers will swing into line as WAP gathers momentum. However, Sprint is a member of the WAP Forum and is committed to convergence. The bottom line is that the United States will see some sort of commercial WAP service by the fall. In Europe, that's not the case, and WAP devices and services will be offering individuals capabilities and services that they don't currently possess.
People tend to think of mobile phones as having tiny screens and a small typeface.
They're going to get bigger, without a doubt. Clearly, businesspeople on the move will be first to use their WAP devices to buy their own airline tickets and reserve their own hotels, Short says. Still others, such as Nokia's Hamilton, see the potential of building bar-code readers into WAP devices. Calif. PeopleSoft developers have been working on WAP since last fall, he adds, and early applications include order status checking, pricing and availability, requisition approvals, and expense management logging. If it makes sense to put it on a mobile device, we'll put it there.