Sobre os arquivos WBMP
Wireless Bitmap
Formato bitmap simplificado para celulares pré-smartphone (1999). Imagens 1-bit otimizadas para telas WAP de baixa resolução. Tecnicamente obsoleto.
Família
Raster & Vector Images
Extensão
.wbmp
Tipo MIME
image/vnd.wap.wbmp
Pode ser usado como
COMO NASCEU O
FORMATO WBMP.
WBMP — Wireless Bitmap — was defined in 1999 by the WAP Forum for Wireless Application Protocol browsers. Pre-smartphone mobile phones (Nokia 7110 and similar) browsed the mobile web at 9.6 kbit/s on monochrome screens; WBMP provided a 1-bit bitmap format with almost no header overhead so images could fit in tiny bandwidth budgets. A typical WBMP was 50-200 bytes.
Smartphones killed WAP browsing around 2005-2007. WBMP lingered in embedded IoT displays and in some legacy B2M (business-to-mobile) SMS gateway systems. In 2026 the format is essentially dead, a monument to the monochrome-screen WAP era nobody misses.
CURIOSIDADES E
FATOS INTERESSANTES.
WAP browsers on Nokia 7110, Siemens S35, and Motorola Timeport rendered WBMP in monochrome at 9.6 kbit/s.
A typical WBMP icon was 50-200 bytes — smaller than most text messages.
WAP 2.0 (2002) added WBMP support for color variants that hardly any phone adopted.
The WAP Forum became the Open Mobile Alliance — WBMP is one of its legacy artifacts.
SMS-to-MMS gateways used WBMP for picture messages in the early 2000s before smartphones killed the format.
VANTAGENS E
LIMITAÇÕES.
Vantagens
- Tiny file size.
- Pre-smartphone mobile standard.
- Trivial to encode.
Limitações
- Monochrome only.
- WAP era is dead.
- Zero modern use.
Tamanhos típicos de arquivo
Typical WBMP icon
50-200 bytes
Especificações técnicas
- MIME type
- image/vnd.wap.wbmp
- Extension
- .wbmp
- Bit depth
- 1-bit
- Origin
- WAP Forum (1999)
CONVERTER A PARTIR DE
WBMP
Casos de uso comuns
Legacy mobile graphics, WAP content, retro mobile development
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Perguntas frequentes sobre WBMP
Perguntas frequentes
WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) is an image formato used to store raster graphics — a two-dimensional grid of pixels describing a picture. It is part of the raster & vector images family e designed around a specific trade-off between tamanho do arquivo, visual fidelity, e feature support (transparency, colour depth, compressão type). Photographers, web designers, e content creators choose WBMP when its particular strengths match the publishing target.
Most desktop photo viewers (Windows Photos, macOS Preview, GIMP, Photoshop, Affinity Photo) abrir WBMP natively. On mobile, iOS Photos e Google Photos display WBMP no gallery when suportado por the OS. If the formato is rare ou new, converter to JPG ou PNG first — both are universally readable — usando our WBMP to JPG ou WBMP to PNG converter.
Upload the WBMP to KaijuConverter e pick a target formato (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, SVG, PDF). The conversion runs in o navegador via ImageMagick e returns a baixar in seconds. No account ou installation required; both input e output delete automatically within two hours.
Depende de the task. JPG is the smallest tamanho do arquivo para photographs; PNG is sem perdas com transparência; WBMP has its own niche that may favour colour depth, animation, ou codificação efficiency over one ou both of those. para the final web publish, test all three e measure tamanho do arquivo plus visible quality on real content.