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Originally Posted by chrisplough  Bob,
Thankya  Funny - I haven't tested this out in years and it's improved a good bit. Just tested it out on my BlackBerry.
My next curiosity is how usable this is in the real world. It looks great and is very demo-able, but I'll have to use it a bit to figure out how much we can accomplish via this interface.
--Chris |
Hi Chris,
I agree with you that it looks nice and very demo-able, but in the real world, it's another story altogether. You're at the mercy of Telecom companies (Telcos). Ian, being my ex-colleague can testify to such horror stories when we did a WAP implementation in Singapore and China sometime in 2004 before I joined G-Log.
Specifically speaking, some of the issues that were faced included:
a) Response times, esp when the driver is out of the telco's GPRS range, POD timing is no longer in real time.
b) The China telco (can't remember with one) not being fully compliant on WAP protocol. So WAP pages work on phones in SG but not in CN and we had to tweak our pages just so that it got displayed correctly on the China phones.
c) Somehow the implementation does not work with CDMA networks in Korea- could be a problem with our implementation, but it's pretty embarrassing when I was attempting to do the demo then, LOL
Just my two cents' worth, but that was way back in 2004. I certainly believe that the wireless technology and mobile devices are more stable and reliable by now.
Ian - do you have anything more to add?
Simon.