Over-the-air provisioning of WAP settings
To simplify the configuration of WAP settings in the T630/T628, all settings can be sent to the phone as an SMS message. This makes it easy for an opera- tor, a service provider or a company to distribute settings for Internet/intranet, and WAP, without the user having to configure the phone manually. This also makes it easy to upgrade services, as no man- ual configuration is required.
•The OTA configuration message is distributed via SMS
•The setup information is a binary encoded XML message (WBXML). To receive information about OTA specifications, please contact your local Sony Ericsson representative for con-
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sumer products. A configurator that utilizes OTA provisioning can be tested on www.SonyErics- son.com
•The user is alerted about new settings when the ongoing browsing session ends. Settings are not changed during an ongoing browsing ses- sion.
•User interaction is limited to receiving and accepting/rejecting the configuration message, and selecting which WAP profile to allocate the settings to.
•Security can be handled using a keyword identi- fier displayed on the screen as a shared secret between the SMS sender and recipient. There- fore the user can verify that the configuration message is authentic.
Push services
Examples of WAP services that can be pushed include:
•Notification of new
•News, sports results, weather forecasts, finan- cial information (stock quotes etc.).
•Personal Information Manager (PIM) - delivery of contacts, meeting requests etc.
•Smart card
•Interactive games.
In the , the user selects whether to allow push mes- sages or not. There are two different forms of Push services:
Service Indication (SI)
An SI service sends to the browser a text message with a URL of a WAP page. If the user decides to load the URL, normal WAP browsing commences.
When an SI is received by the T630/T628, the user can load it immediately, postpone it or delete it. Received SIs are stored in the Push Inbox and can be viewed and loaded at a later time. The Push Inbox displays a list containing the first part of each received message. The list is sorted by action attribute (high/medium/low) or reception time of the message.
Service Loading (SL)
An SL service sends and displays a WAP page if accepted by the user. If the SL is not accepted, it is loaded and stored in the cache for later use. The user can start the browser and load the page from the cache manually.
cHTML support
Compact HTML or cHTML is defined as a subset of HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 specifications. This means that Compact HTML inherits its flexibil- ity and portability from standard HTML. T630/T628 supports cHTML to facilitate development of I - mode applications for the handset.
data to handheld devices and is owned by NTT DoCoMo. cHTML does not use WAP as a transmis- sion method.
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