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opera mini at wml\wap1.2 only device ...
(there is no spot of java on such devices)

yeswap.com is good\safe enough for such xhtml to wml proxy?! ... but Google translator (Google wml) makes wml pages better

WapReview.com - Mobile Proxies

Html To WML (link)
It seems like wml sites are disappearing faster than wml-only phones. If you're stuck with a wml-only device, this transcoder converts (x)html pages into wml. Supports forms but not images.

Google wml (link)
The wml version of Google mobile search used to have a "Go To Url" option that let specify the url of a website. Google then returned a copy of the site transcoded into wml. The transcoding wasn't very fancy, everything except text and links was stripped out. Still, it let you view any site on a wml-only phone. Google still offers the transcoding functionality as part of their mobile search portal for both wml and wap2 but the ability to directly enter a url disappeared sometime last year. I'm not sure why they dropped it but I suspect some product manager thought is was too geeky. Eventually, the go to url functionality returned as a separate page, but only for Wap2 not for wml.

I got to thinking about this when I was looking at the server logs for my mobile portal, yeswap.com which comes in both wml and wap2 flavors. I was surprised that I was still getting a lot of hits to the wml pages, almost 50% of the total. A fair number of the wml requests come from countries like Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Turkmenistan - I guess that's where our old phones wind up when we are done with them. I decided to whip together a little replacement for the Google "Go to url" feature. It lets you enter an address and then calls the Google html to wml transcoder. I don't know if anyone will use it but at least it's available. The url is yeswap.com/goto.wml. For users of the Yeswap mobile portal, just follow the menus to Technology/Internet/Mobile Proxies

One nice feature of the old Google html to wml transcoder is that if you pass it an address that returns a wml page, the transcoder gracefully steps aside and passes the original page to you. I wish the Google's wap2 transcoder did the same when it finds a mobile page.