Bored with your Wap (wireless application protocol) phone working only spasmodically? Try a simulation on a web page instead. One of the best is www.gelon.net. It has a "wapalizer" which reproduces a wap phone on screen by fetching pages from web sites and converting them into Wap pages.

For a large directory of Wap sites go to http://mfinder.cellmania.com/ and click Wap under "Reference" then double click on any entry to test it on the wapalizer. Another site (http://Wapland.com) contains news, reports, searches and reviews.

Practising on these emula tors is a great way of monitoring the progress of Wap phones. One day they will suddenly start working properly and quickly. It would be a shame not to be there at the time.

If you prefer to read about Wap offline then try "Wap", possibly the world's first glossy Wap magazine. It has made an impressive start with the August issue. It remains to be seen whether it can maintain interest despite the imperfect performance of current models.

Digitaloctopus's wap wine guide (Online, August 3) gets its revenue from a licensing agreement and not from a share of telco revenues.