Appendix 9: Wap emulators

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Preamble

Wap emulators are downloadable programs that will simulate a mobile phone (literally: they even have little pictures of the mobile and its screen), and they allow engineers to write and test Wap sites before they are installed. The following details are taken virtually verbatim from "Wap in easy steps" (2000, Mike McGrath, http://www.ineasysteps.com), although it should be pointed out that it was the author of this thesis who noticed the discrepancies between the emulators and the real phones….

Nokia Wap Toolkit

• This is available from the Nokia Forum website at http://ww.forum.nokia.com.
• It’s 6.8Mb big, & the Java Runtime Environment has to be installed first (available from http://www.javasoft.com).
• It requires Win95/WinNT(4 or above), about 20Mb (preferably 64Mb) of disk space and a 266MHz or above Pentium chip.
• Nokia Wap Toolkit allows text formatting tags like <big> and <small>, but Nokia phones don’t in real life.

Ericsson WapIDE

• This is available from http://www.ericsson.com/wap.
• It comes in two parts (which have to be installed in the correct sequence).
• It’s 10.4Mb in size
• System requirements are similar to the Nokia Wap Toolkit.
• Ericsson WapIDE doesn’t allow text formatting tags, but Ericsson phones do support them in real life.

Motorola ADK

• This is available from http://mix.motorola.com
• It’s approx 20Mb big
• It needs 64Mb of memory and the Java Virtual Machine (if you’ve got Internet Explorer you’ve already got the JVM: if you haven’t, you can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/java)