American readers (and those following news in the country) might want to bookmark their just launched WAP site (http://wap.usatoday.com/). It's a good site, and in conjunction with my perennial favourite (the low bandwidth BBC News website news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm) it's possible to keep up to speed with current affairs in your mobile web browser.
Read on in the full article.
It's interesting to see how media companies and operators will handle transition from current generation WAP 1.X / WML based mobile services to WAP 2.0 / XHTML based services. Basic phones that most consumers still have, only support WAP 1.x, but the latest smartphones seem to focus on WAP 2.x / XHTML browsers, and some phones don't even support WAP 1.x anymore in their specifications.
Are their backwards compatible? Some previews of prototypes suggest they may not be. For example the new S60 browser (in S60 3rd Edition) has been reported to be one of these.
Edit: typos
Yeah the new S60 browser does not support WML - one if its bigggest failings in my opinion. Nokia are, I think, planning to ship the Services Application in addition to the new browser with the N80 so that there will be a WAP capable browser on the phone.