Networking at home

Sometimes you may need to access WAP sites from your desktop computer, for example if you want to save a downloaded java game or you want to access some information on WAP which is normally only accessible from a phone. There are two problems to be solved: user agent setting for the browser - you may need to change this, in order to make the web site think that you are browsing it from a mobile phone using the operator's wap network, because some content is only available if you are accessing it from the operators network. Changing user agent For the first, theeasiest solution is to use Firefox and then change the 'general.useragent.override' setting of the browser for example to: Nokia6230/2.0+(04.43)+Profile/MIDP-2.0+Configuration/CLDC-1.1+UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0 to simulate a Nokia 6230. You can check your browsers user agent on this web page . For a list of user agent string for different phones go here . Using the WAP network The easiest way of connecting your...

Setting up a Windows Mobile device corretly for accessing internet, corporate network, MMS and WAP is not a trivial task and on the top of it it can not be done using only the user interface provided on the device. The easiest way of doing it is to create a special XML file, containg the needed settings, then put it into a cab file, which can be simply installed on the device. In this post there will be a short overview of the handling of the different networks in a WM device, then there will be the explanation of the configuration file created for the Pannon nework in Hungary and then some references will be given to further setting possibilities. As oposed to other mobile phones, where you have to set the gprs connection manually for each application, in windows mobile there is a rather complex system, which tries to figure out automaticaly from the web address used, that which connection to use. Let's see, how this works: First the address is compared to the Mappings an this de...