101325 Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I'm sure this has been talked about before, but the new GPRS phones and their internet speed/big screens make this subject a lot more interesting. Can you get onto www.geocaching.com through GPRS/WAP? Quote Link to comment
+The Merman Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I have an spv phone which has html browsing capability. I can actually go on to GC.com and log a cache with it live. The thing that I found was that I needed to disable pictures to keep the size of the gprs download smaller. Now I can do about 20 GC.com pages for £2 without all the gifs and such having to load. I woke this morning and my boat was not rocking...for one horrid moment I thought I lived in a house! Quote Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 HI There, I've written a Java Midlet that will let you search/view caches. If your mobile phone supports 'downloadable games' you may want to try it..... It is much faster than using a normal wap browser, as the data is pre-processed by www.geocacheuk.com, who remove all of the HTML formatting before sending to the phone. Also, it has the advantage of still working when you have no signal.. The instructions for using it are here: http://www.geocacheuk.com/midlet.shtml Oh, it's a freebe by the way!! Quote Link to comment
+Richard & Beth Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Weston Wanderers:I've written a Java Midlet that will let you search/view caches. If your mobile phone supports 'downloadable games' you may want to try it..... It is much faster than using a normal wap browser, as the data is pre-processed by http://www.geocacheuk.com, who remove all of the HTML formatting before sending to the phone. Also, it has the advantage of still working when you have no signal.. It's a pity it's UK only though. We're off to France next week, and my phone will quite happily roam GPRS (or so O2 tell me!) so having the midlet working for French caches as well would save us having to prepick the caches we want to do... Richard Quote Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 'Fraid so, the midlet needs some server somewhere to pre-process the data, and I believe geocacheuk (who currently do this) are only allowed to serve uk cache details (correct me if i'm wrong!)..... Tony. Quote Link to comment
+paul_and_judith Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Or instead of trying to do view cache details on the phone, you could connect a PDA to the web using the phone as a modem. I do this and it works a treat. Quote Link to comment
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