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but has received little, if any, positive feedback from users. Because

of that, WAP has sometimes been referred to as “wait and pay.”

Interestingly, it is not only the protocol but also the applications uti-

lizing WAP that, as a whole, push users away because of application

performance, input methods, and the GUI interface, among other

reasons. Moving toward standard IP protocols rather than special-

ized wireless protocols, WAP 2.0 addresses most of the problems of

the protocol stack and the application environment, thereby giving

the technology a brighter future.

iMode is a successful wireless application service provided by NTT

DoCoMo. It is very similar to WAP in that it defines an architec-

ture of web access ...