Web Phones

How universal is the Web? With the arrival of a new generation of digital cell phones, it will be just a phone call away. You can book a flight, check on a package, get a stock quote, or phone in a sales order to any public or intranet server attached to AT&T's Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) wireless Internet-access service (which will be fully commercial in early 1997). And the handsets will cost little or nothing more than garden-variety cellular models.

Emerging CDPD digital-cell-phone networks will carry IP packets to and from Web servers that use Unwired Planet's UPLink Server softwa re. The servers run UP's Hand-Held Device Markup Language (HDML).

Netscape Navigator won't do here. Instead, Unwired Planet's UPLink Client browser software is embedded in special cell phones from AT&T and Mitsubishi. This browser translates HDML ta gs into a four-line display format.

With HDML, the Web-page designer creates "soft" buttons, assigned on the fourth line of the display, for interactive Web browsing. Each button activates a link on the server. Users can also enter data in forms with the alphanumeric phone keys.

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Product Information

MobileAccess Phone

Mitsubishi Personal Mobile Communications Division
Sunnyvale, CA
Internet: 
http://www.mitsubishi.com


UPLink Client and UPLink Server

Unwired Planet
Redwood City, CA
Phone:    (415) 596-5200
Internet: 
http://www.uplanet.com


Internet Phone (code name)

AT&T Wireless Services
Wireless Data Division
Kirkland, WA
Phone:    (800) 552-3373
Internet: 
http://www.airdata.com


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A: Emerging CDPD digital-cell-phone networks will carry IP packets to and from web servers that use Unwired Planet's UPLink Server software. The servers run UP's Hand-Held Device Markup Language (HDML).

B: Netscape Navigator won't do here. Instead, Unwired Planet's UPLink Client browser software is embeddedin special cell phones from AT&T and Mitsubishi. This browser translates HDML tags into a four-line display format.

C: With HDML, the Web-page designer creates "soft" buttons, assigned on the fourth line of the display, for interactive Web browsing. Each button activates a link on the server. Users can also enter data in forms with the alphanumeric phone keyes.