The WAP world is not just about technologies, protocols, and software. As I have mentioned above, many companies look at WAP as the next cash cow. Many positive predictions as you will read about. Personally, I believe in them, because I am right now making a living as developing WAP software. The better these predictions are, the better future I have. =) Let's take a look!
Symbian Developer Conference The first event we are going to look at is the Symbian Developer Conference in mid Feb. 2000. Symbian creates an Operating System named EPOC. EPOC OS is developed for small devices with low power consumption and good memory management in mind. Over the years, it is becoming an first choice OS for next generation mobile. More details on EPOC can be found in Symbian's web site at http://www.symbian.com . Many hardware and software vendors have their minds set on EPOC OS as their next mobile computing platform. As a developer, I have to say EPOC OS is very well designed and provides mobile device a flexible environment to operate.
For this reason, Symbian Developer Conference can be looked as mobile computing conference in a way. One common thing in this conference is how big companies look as mobile devices. Johan Lodenius, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Qualcomm, predicated smart phones will be built into clothes and other daily items such as make-up cases. He also believed that electronic wallets to pay for goods wirelessly, and personal navigators could will you where you were and sales in stores around you. In about 10 years, Net-enabled smart phones and small handheld devices will replace PCs and line phones, said Colly Myers, Symbian's CEO. The reason for all this is because wireless devices will soon become very cheap and people will carry them anywhere they go. The idea is to offer inexpensive devices and target at monthly charges for revenue. As a result, the phone or device may cost very little to own.
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