Pleae forgive me for possibly asking the obvious but I am not etting the difference between GPRS and GPRS WAP.
I got the P800 because I was fed up with the rubbish WAP and the last thing I want to do is continue with it when i have the ossibility of propoer surfing. Is this possible on the P800 with UK O2?
All I get form the Sony Ericsson website is GPRS WAP settings......
Please help. Relly dont need to know if I have wasted a bundle of cash. 😮
The P800 can surf in internet... Period.
With GPRS the speed is high compared to GSM and the cust is over the traffic (in Portugal TMN charges 8euros/Mb) and not over the time.
Try to activate GPRS with your operator and ask then the settings for P800 (and prices!). Then go to www.sonyericsson.com, install Opera in your P800 and... SURF! 😉
WAP was meant to make surfing faster for mobile users by having smaller files to download (with such small screens you don't need big pics anyway).
GPRS was meant to make downloading both faster and cheaper (you share the bandwidth with other users rather than paying for a call while you sit and read the page you've just downloaded).
So...GPRS is faster and cheaper per kB than 'dial up'. But you lose the advantage if you surf the 'proper' internet rather than WAP.
Hopefully, now that some cool devices (P800) and GPRS are around, WAP will improve - it actually supports colour, pictures, and other features that haven't been used yet. The catch is, the webpage has to be specifically designed for mobile (small) devices. Luckily some have eg wap.google.com (I'm not sure the actual link).
Point is, I agree that having the ability to surf HTML is soooo great, but at $10AUD/MB in Australia, I will be hoping there are lots of good WAP sites around for me to use!!![/i]
Hi!
I hope I can help somewhat as I have helped develope a WAP gateway for a large friend of ours 😊:
1. GPRS-WAP is simply WAP over GPRS instead of dial-up. All traffic when surfing will go through a WAP gateway that translates WML (WAP Markup Language) into byte format to save bandwidth. You can still surf HTML it's just that you'll be going through a WAP proxy. If you're unlucky cookies will be stripped by the proxy so for normal HTML surfing it's not optimal.
2. With GPRS you can still access WAP sites as Opera (and the inbuilt browser) supports WML directly and not just the byte (compiled) format.
If you're really unlucky then your operator won't allow you the surf unrestricted with GPRS which may be why the SonyEricsson site only gives you these options.
Hope this helps
/Trev
[quote="Father of Lies"]Pleae forgive me for possibly asking the obvious but I am not etting the difference between GPRS and GPRS WAP.
I got the P800 because I was fed up with the rubbish WAP and the last thing I want to do is continue with it when i have the ossibility of propoer surfing. Is this possible on the P800 with UK O2?
All I get form the Sony Ericsson website is GPRS WAP settings......
Please help. Relly dont need to know if I have wasted a bundle of cash. 😮[/quote]
Does the Opera browser (downloaded from the SE site) support access using WAP over GPRS? I think I am using WAP over GPRS settings and
while I am able to browse sites using the built-in browser, I cannot
access any site using the dowloaded Opera.