FREE TEXT ON WAP PHONE

[RogerLloyd]

I can get the shipping forecast for free on my computer using my web browser, Internet explorer.
I can get the shipping forecast for free on my computer using my WAP Internet browser.
I can not get the shipping forecast for free using my WAP phone because the favourites memory is not sufficient for the weather site's URL.

I need a mobile with a larger capacity for a favourite memory, or a weather site whose URL has less characters, or a man who knows how to do it properly.

I thought that you might have one of the latter on your magazine staff or even an Internet Guru reader.

Roger Lloyd

 

[Guest]

Have a wap phone but have found it less than useful for exactly the sort of reason you mention. Instead I use the infra red link to a Psion palmtop which works brilliantly. Also allows you to e mail and provides a keyboard rather than the multiple key strokes of the phone. Better than the laptop because it is more robust in a marine environment - no rotating hard disk, for example

 

[Guest]

Have you tried the Met Office SMS service? Not free but very cheap and up to date.

 

[Guest]

Psion and infared link to Nokia 8210, 8850, 7110 etc good but not excellentr when bobbing up and down trying to keep ports aligned etc.

Solution:
Get hold of a Nokia 9210, size of a house brick but a good one box solution, runs symbian OS/epoc (same as psion) has a decent web browser that can handle most sites on the web unless high encryption.Uses MMC cards so 128mb largest at present. Plus of course wap, email (multiple accounts) fax

Tim Eades
http://www.btinternet.com/~tim.eades/<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TimE on Tue Jan 15 21:20:40 2002 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[bedouin]

Care to explain in more detail?

My WAP phone (Ericsson) does it very nicely thank-you. I bookmark the Met Office WAP page and click down from there. The URL is 'www.mymetoffice.com/main.wml' - hardly an excessive length.

On the subject of WAP - I can also strongly recommend 'Online Weather' (wap.onlineweather.com) - an excellent service

 

[RogerLloyd]

I have a Pre-Pay Cellnet mobile. I dont think that this will work for me because I can not pay to receive text.

 

[RogerLloyd]

I have now found out that I CAN get SMS weather from www.metoffice.com provided I reqister with them and pay credit up front. I believe that each weather request (inshore waters or shipping) costs 10p and 50p respectively. I have not tried it yet, but that sounds GREAT.
Roger Lloyd

 

[steve_cronin]

Ericsson R380 s or e

Have found that these can receive weather and have used them in Greece. They have a qwerty keyboard (operated by a plastic stylus) so inputting is easy. Both my sons have them so get invited on board as and when. When my i888 World expires this will be it's replacement. Also works through infra red to laptops etc.

Steve Cronin

 

[Guest]

Re: Ericsson R380 s or e

R380 is also good bit of kit it runs epoc/symbian OS and was the first symbian stuff I was involved with testing.But has limitations that will become apparent as the network upgrades happen. Neither the R380 or 9210 at present supports GPRS only HSCD. HSCD is only supported by one operator per country and works making 4 similtanious calls to get the data download speed by breaking data into packets.
I have been testing a phone with GPRS over internet, wap and email and the speed is comparable to a home pc on a 56K link.There is talk of a back port of this to the 9210 software but not sure.
The first fully functional phone supporting this and haveing web and e-mail will be June or July, the Nokia 7650 again running Symbian OS, which I have been playing with over the last few weeks.
May be worth waiting for this to appear on the market

Tim Eades
http://www.btinternet.com/~tim.eades/