Just thought i would show you guys something cool

Manukau heads obs · Sat 24/07/2004 09:27

http://wapsilon.com/?q=1;t=n7210;f=0::h ... /index.wml

that is a wap emulator, of my weather data available via a wap enabled cell phone (i have one myself)
scroll down to see the graphs of the temp/hum and wind/baro at the end of the wap feed...now thats pretty neat, ah!
the url to view the data, updated every 10 minutes, on your wap phone (great if you are a fisherman in the manukau harbour, or a kite fisher, surfer,paraglider, is
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/wap/index.wml

takes a bit to type in though, but then bookmark it...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 24/07/2004 09:31

yes it looks good but you have to pay tele-con everytime you access it,wheres you can just look out the window or out of the boat

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 24/07/2004 09:39

Its the way technology and the weather is going, would be great to use, only no one in the 03 has such a service that i know of!

Manukau heads obs · Sat 24/07/2004 09:40

but not much, only about 8c or so
its the speed of the wind or the trend of the wind, or the wind direction that people are needing, to decide wether to go kite fishing, boating, paragliding, you name it....and it can be quite different on this side to the auckland side....

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 24/07/2004 11:09

Yes, thats cool. I'm due to upgrade my cell phone. I'll have to look into this wap thing. I think those phones are still expensive though.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 24/07/2004 11:16

if you have an old telecom phone, they have a system where they swap it for the latest new phone for only $50
good deal, we did that with the wifes phone!

Rikcy, who lives near you , has a wap page too:
http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/wap/index.wml

but we need to get him to use the latest version of the software so people can see the graphs

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Sat 24/07/2004 21:26

Manukau heads observer wrote:if you have an old telecom phone, they have a system where they swap it for the latest new phone for only $50.......

Yeah?

What's the catch? There has to be a Tele$cum sting in the tail, like $100/month minimum or similar

[wanders off to find out more]

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Sat 24/07/2004 21:39

Thought so. I'll hang onto my good old brick I think. Ugly as it may be

Manukau heads obs · Sat 24/07/2004 21:58

?
we didnt find any catches...
what catch did you find?

what did we miss?

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Sun 25/07/2004 15:49

Cheapest I could find were the $xxx /month plans.

Currently, I pay no monthly fee and since I only use my phone for occasional calls out (mostly receive for callouts) It would have to be a pretty special deal to get me to change. By all means post a URL that would tempt me

CB Fan
025 and proud

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 25/07/2004 16:39

You can purchase a WAP enabled phone for under $400 now. But the sales rep at Vodafone said they were no longer promoting WAP as a function as they did not think much of it.

I was told the wap service is limited and slow to download.

Anyway, I have come across this URL on WAP if anyone wants more info.

http://www.vodafone.co.nz/services/07.18_wap.jsp

Manukau heads obs · Sun 25/07/2004 21:37

hi
text wap pages load up pretty quick, about 5 to 10 seconds...

phone: we just pay for calls direct to our phone account....telecom...no other charges
actualy, it was 100$ to trade in the old phone...

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 26/07/2004 17:28

We also tried out various solutions along these lines but in the end they were always prohibitively expensive, both to implement and maintain.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 27/07/2004 14:40

hi
very little cost involved for me to have a wap weather page availble for the public to view....its just a small text file , and 2 small graph files, uploaded to a ftp server where my weather page is.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Tue 27/07/2004 23:33

Manukau heads observer wrote:hi
very little cost involved for me to have a wap weather page availble for the public to view....its just a small text file , and 2 small graph files, uploaded to a ftp server where my weather page is.

I guess it depends upon how how often you intend to upload data. For our purposes, it needed to be often if it was to be even remotely useful. As a result the bill would have been horrendous. (Bear in mind that this was a couple of years ago).

For significantly less than the projected monthly cost, we were able to purchase and install standard 802.11b WLAN equipment and transmit data every minute, 24 hours, affordably, a solution which serves us reliably still.

I hasten to qualify my statements by adding that the pricing regime may well have changed since then. It would be nice to think that a Telecoms company has become less rapaciously greedy, but it's hard to imagine!

Manukau heads obs · Wed 28/07/2004 06:05

humm, seems to be some confustion here
you dont use a cell phone to update the data so that it can be used by cell phone uses
you just need an internet connection and a Web page site

there are so many knockers in NZ!

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 28/07/2004 08:36

Manukau heads observer wrote:humm, seems to be some confustion here
you dont use a cell phone to update the data so that it can be used by cell phone uses
you just need an internet connection and a Web page site

there are so many knockers in NZ!

OK Brian, no need to label us as "knockers" just because some of us aren't convinced that something is workable for all of us.

I thought you were referring to the cellular-based services. If I'm wrong about that then I'm sorry. No need to take things so personally.

So what is the difference between the way most of us update our webpages now and the method you are offering?

Manukau heads obs · Wed 28/07/2004 09:04

huh?
you have still missed the point altogether

the web page viewable on a wap enabled phone is updated like any other weather page via ftp, etc, its just a sepcial type of html format that is viewable with a wap enabled phone
(and is not viewable via normal web browser unless via a wap simulator like shown at the start of this thread.

simple as that
nothing complicated
nothing expensive

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 28/07/2004 09:09

Manukau heads observer wrote:huh?
you have still missed the point altogether

the web page viewable on a wap enabled phone is updated like any other weather page via ftp, etc, its just a sepcial type of html format that is viewable with a wap enabled phone
(and is not viewable via normal web browser unless via a wap simulator like shown at the start of this thread.

simple as that
nothing complicated
nothing expensive

OK, I'm with you now. I saw the word "cellphone" and assumed it was just an extension of the usual extortionate Telco service regime.

So it's really another way of viewing weather pages, only on a cellphone.

The charges would just be similar to text-messaging I guess?

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