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UNIVERSITATEA BABEŞ-BOLYAI CLUJ-NAPOCA FACULTATEA DE MATEMATICǍ ŞI INFORMATICǍ SPECIALIZAREA INFORMATICA LUCRARE DE LICENŢĂ [titlul] Conducător ştiinţific Lector Dr. Sterca Adrian Absolvent Ioana Goron 2015 BABEŞ-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY CLUJ-NAPOCA FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE SPECIALIZATION COMPUTER SCIENCE DIPLOMA THESIS [title] Supervisor Lector Dr. Sterca Adrian Author Ioana Goron 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Generalities .................................................................................. 6 1.2. Background ................................................................................. 6 …show more content…

Competition was fierce and trade secrets were closely guarded. Manufacturers didn’t want to expose the internal workings of their handsets, so they usually developed the phone software in-house. As a developer, if you weren’t part of this inner circle, you had no opportunity to write applications for the phones. Although these early phones were flawed, they did something important - they changed the way people thought about communication. As mobile phone prices dropped, batteries improved, and reception areas grew, more and more people began carrying these handy devices. Soon mobile phones were more than just a novelty. Customers began pushing for more features and more games. But, there was a problem. The handset manufacturers didn’t have the motivation or the resources to build every application users wanted. They needed some way to provide a portal for entertainment and information services without allowing direct access to the …show more content…

Unlike traditional Web browsers, WAP browsers were designed to run within the memory and bandwidth constraints of the phone. Third-party WAP sites served up pages written in a markup language called Wireless Markup Language (WML). These pages were then displayed on the phone’s WAP browser. Users navigated as they would on the Web, but the pages were much simpler in design. Handset manufacturers could write one WAP browser to ship with the handset and rely on developers to come up with the content users wanted. Developers and content providers didn’t deliver. For the first time, developers had a chance to develop content for phone users, and some did so, with limited success. Most of the early WAP sites were extensions of popular branded Web sites, such as CNN.com and ESPN.com , looking for new ways to extend their readership. Suddenly phone users accessed the news, stock market quotes, and sports scores on their phones. Commercializing WAP applications was difficult, and there was no built-in billing mechanism. Some of the most popular commercial WAP applications that emerged during this time were simple wallpaper and ringtone catalogues, allowing users to personalize their phones for the first

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