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Benefits of WAP
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Applications Improvements
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Next generation applications can be viewed through WAP 2.0 enabled multimedia browsing
environment (support for standard Internet GUI extensions). Also, new WAP 2.0 functionality
includes end-to-end SSL security, voice browsing, integrated telephony applications, data
synchronization through Sync ML.
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Benefits for VZW and Its Customers
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- Richer user experience increases product offering's attractiveness to both the end-user
and the developer community
- Better leverage of:
- Higher bandwidth, faster data speeds, greater processing power and varied screen
sizes
- Smaller, faster, higher power devices
- 3G Network capabilities
- Provisioning - Permits operator to provision and identify the service and manage the
devices
- Improved branding opportunities for both VZW and partners
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Benefits for the VZW Developer Community
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WAP 2.0 is a significant upgrade from the WAP 1.X platform. The WAP 2.0 specification contains
improvements and new features available to WAP content developers.
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- Backward legacy compatibility: WAP 2.0 converges with Internet standards (xHTML,
HTTP1.1, TCP/IP), while still supporting previous WAP versions providing development
consolidation for the content providers and the content community as a whole.
- Upgraded Application Environment: XML enabled content with XSL Style sheets allow the
content provider to leverage same content base across different environments and make
changes to the content easily.
- Open standards environment: Bridges the wireless (HDML, WML languages) and wire-line
environments (supporting xHTML, HTML, XML, HTTP Push) and effectively leverages the
unique functions of wireless networks and devices such as premium services and CDMA 2000
functionality, e.g., location based services, multimedia, etc.
- Reduction of development costs (WAP 2.0 permits wireless devices to utilize existing
Internet technologies)
- User Agent Profiling: Enhanced user agent profiling capabilities through which detailed
device capability information is available to content providers so that content can be
customized by device type.
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