{"id":228,"date":"2006-12-13T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:50:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T07:50:36","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/228\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of minor updates to WapReview and Yeswap.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"184\" height=\"229\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\" Enter Site Image \" title=\" Enter Site Image \" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/enter.png\" \/>In response to a request from a user, I&#8217;ve added  an &#8220;Enter URL&#8221; form to YesWAP.com  It seems that certain carriers, including Verizon in the US, disable the browser&#8217;s option to key in an arbitrary url on some phones &#8211; presumably to discourage users from leaving the &#8220;walled garden&#8221;.  The user who wrote me was able to change his browser&#8217;s home page to point to YesWAP. On some phones without the enter site facility a workaround is to send a link to your phone in an SMS using the carrier&#8217;s Email to SMS gateway.  So if you can&#8217;t enter any URL into you mobile browser but somehow can  get to yeswap.com I&#8217;ve added a link to the Search page called &#8220;Enter Site&#8221;.  And if you don&#8217;t care about YesWAP and just want to go straight to the Enter Site page, the url is <a href=\"http:\/\/yeswap.com\/Enter.php\">yeswap.com\/Enter.php<\/a>. Enter Site should work with all phones including wml-only ones.<\/li>\n<li>BluePulse, one of the Java ME apps I <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/212\">recommended<\/a>  to Nextel and Boost users  has been  updated to a new version and the one I linked to no longer works.  So I&#8217;ve zipped up the latest BluePulse <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/dwnld\/bp.zip\">here<\/a> for your side-loading pleasure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of minor updates to WapReview and Yeswap. In response to a request from a user, I&#8217;ve added an &#8220;Enter URL&#8221; form to YesWAP.com It seems that certain carriers, including Verizon in the US, disable the browser&#8217;s option to key in an arbitrary url on some phones &#8211; presumably to discourage users from leaving the &#8220;walled garden&#8221;. The user who wrote me was able to change his browser&#8217;s home page to point to YesWAP. On some phones without the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/228\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}