It might be a good idea to note that, in Japan, NTT's i-mode service uses Compact HTML rather than WAP, and commands about 7-7.5 million users (dwarfing the other two carriers combined, and about equal to the top two ISPs). Of the ten million phones with IP out there (here, whatever) at the moment, 1-2 million are wapped.

Right now I'm hearing fairly strong interest on the XHTML front, and more and more skepticism on WAP--heard the old saw "Where Are the Phones" from a DoCOMo guy the other day...

In the interest of fairness, however, it should also be noted that the venture that I am working for is looking to develop in both WAP and compact HTML, at least until market development is a little bit more clear. Cheers, jimbud in Tokyo