Here's a pic of my first cellphone loading it earlier this year: https://files.catbox.moe/cmi78w.jpeg
Newer mid-2000's phones are WAP 2.0 and don't need a gateway (they also mostly support j2me, so this is the way to have a mostly usable browser with opera mini, otherwise pretty much all TLS sites but m.google.com will fail)
EDIT: I am on t-mobile and they shut down their WAP gateway ages ago with the exception of MMS.