Mobile browsing

Once you have a service provider you can either use their WAP site or bookmark others.

By entering the address of the site you wish to use (like www.bbc.co.uk/mobile), you will be able to use your mobile phone keypad to surf around.

Because most mobile phone screens are really small and only display black and white you won't see a normal web page in all its colourful glory but you'll get a cut down version of the website.

The people who make web pages have to make separate versions for WAP phones so you may find that your favourite website doesn't have a WAP version.

Navigating

To get around sites you move up and down and select links in a similar way to the web using the keys of your mobile phone.

It's just like using the normal menus on your phone that you use to get text messages and change your phone settings but instead you are using them to move around the web.

If you want to have a go for free, try it out on our BBCi WAP emulator.

Normally your WAP service provider will connect you directly to their internet pages but there's nothing to stop you entering the name of a different site, like BBCi's, and going there.