Thursday June 30, 2005 Rock Lobster? Here comes a Blu-ray wrok wrok Chased by a Manta Ray
What these press announcements don't say is that Java Me (J2ME) CDC is specifically planned for the Blu-ray high definition DVD players. Cool. CDC rules. See: Blu Ray HD DVD players will use Java ME (J2ME) CDC The Java ME CDC version of Java technology is getting back to the grassroots of Java programming--small device, object-oriented, lightweight, full functionality computer programming at its best. OK. I'm slightly biased. ;-) |
Wednesday June 29, 2005 New Moto e895: motorin' ahead with Linux and Java
Watch as Motorola keeps delivering their new next generation Linux and Java technology cell phones. See: Moto e895: Motor on, (with Java ME technology) Motorola The marriage of Linux and Java technologies is a natural one. The all-Java ME technology phone will be a reality soon, where all the Linux OS natives will be hidden but accessible (and protected with fine-grained Java security) using Java ME CDC. |
Tuesday June 28, 2005 You'll be Quaking in your Java ME boots soon!
First Doom, now Pulse Interactive will make Quake Mobile available for next-generation 3D graphics-enabled Java cell phones. It will display much more complex three dimensional environments than current Java ME games on mobile phones. See: First Doom, now Quake on your Java phone Here's a quote: "It may, however, resemble the original PC version. The gap between hand-held processing power and desktop processing power from that time has been dramatically reduced."More and more, your Java ME phone will be an impressive place to write advanced games. Sharpen up your Java pencils, everyone! It's time to get a-programmin' with the Quake engine on these new fandangle cell phones. |
Monday June 27, 2005
I ran into Paul Schreiber (communications consultant) at the JavaOne 2005 conference today. He showed me a demo of the Semacode Java ME 2D barcode reader. See: It's pretty cool. It uses the camera on the phone to decrypt a 2 dimensional barcode into a URL that you can go to from any Web browser. I'd like to see the other way and have barcodes generated by a Java ME app on your cell phone screen so you can use at the supermarket where they run it over their scanners like a coupon. Hasn't that way been done already? |
Friday June 24, 2005 Through the desert on a version with no name
More interesting stuff about the upcoming JavaOne 2005 conference in San Francisco next week. Lots of stuff being announced at the 10th anniversary of Java technology. See: JavaOne 2005 Past, Present, Future Here's a quote: Sun will also discuss the next release of its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), code-named Glassfish, Sun's Keller added, along with the next version of its Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), which lacks a code name.What? No code name? No code name? Of course we have code names for the next version of J2ME technologies. Gosh! What kind of geeks do you think we are? :-) J2ME CDC 1.1 is code named, Golden Gate. Come to our BOF on Wednesday evening and you'll find out more... |
Thursday June 23, 2005 Huey Lewis says: That's the Power of Love!
Here at Sun Microsystems, we're all getting ready to show the "Power of Java" at the JavaOne 2005 conference in San Francisco next week. See: The Power of Java, that's the Power of Love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Here's a quote: Where much of the J2EE development has come at the hands of companies in the U.S., more technology advances in Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME) are coming from [other] countries providing the most innovation in that area, particularly in the mobile phone space.So, since my blog is mainly about J2ME, I guess most readers are not from the U.S., which means my jokes about Marsha Brady, Danny Partridge, Devo's "Whip It!" are totally lost on most folks. Darn. Here, I am trying to be witty, with song lyrics from Huey Lewis and everyone out there probably has a blank look on their face... thinking, "What he talk about? He not funny. He think he funny. But, he not funny". :-) |
Wednesday June 22, 2005
New J2ME cell phones will be coming out soon with 512MB direct Flash memory on the device with the next generation Flash memory chips from Spansion, like they plan for the new SAGEM myX-8 phones for Europe. See: SAGEM's Java MIDP 2.0 phone with 512MB Flash memory A good way to utilize that amount of memory is to use the next generation of J2ME: CDC Technology as the platform which is more feature-rich, but requires some more footprint. Or, heck, put 150 MP3 songs on it! Do what you want. ;-) |
Tuesday June 21, 2005 Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. KYA! Oh, my nose...
Here's a fun Java game coming from Mobliss. It's Brady Bunch Kung-Fu, where you pick your favorite Brady Bunch character (like Marsha, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter, or Bobby) and fight against another. See: Mobliss Brady Bunch Kung-Fu J2ME game Here's a quote: What happens when the Brady Bunch meets up with a classic fighting game? Tae Kwon Disco! Pit the members of America's favorite sitcom family against each other to settle their petty squabbles once and for all!That sounds pretty funny. It would be even better if in that game you could pit the Partridge Family against the Brady Bunch. My guess is that Danny would kick everyone's butt. Or anyone would kick Mr. Kincaid's butt. |
Monday June 20, 2005 Aye, yaye-yaye, Ay, Curumba Motorola i265 and i275
Here's a comprehensive Nextel Motorola i265 and i275 Java phone review. The Motorola i265 and i275 have GPS TeleNav abilities hooked into Java apps. See: Motorola i265 and i275 J2ME location-based apps Here's a quote: The GPS TeleNav Java-application is loaded with information on top of its obvious navigation features; Biz Finder, Maps, Locator Suite, Compass and Waypoints are all available.Cool Java apps! The article says Java is slow. 20 seconds to start-up. Not cool. But, I'm not sure it's all the fault of J2ME technology... C'est la vie! People love using J2ME as the scape goat. Bahhh! |
Friday June 17, 2005 When a problem comes along, you must SIP it! SIP it good.
Joost Andrae suggests in his comment, that he'd like to see SIP in a J2ME cell phone. Here's the Nokia N91 with JSR 180, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), (you know, push-to-talk, user-intiated multi-media, instant messages, games, etc.). See: SIP of Java technology from a fire hydrant: Nokia N91 Nokia N91 specs:
15 official JSRs. Ding-ding-ding! Okay, that's a new record. Although, I don't think the Nokia N91 is out yet... Anyone have one? |
Thursday June 16, 2005 MTV Cribs: Pimp My Java/J2ME Ring-Ring
Bruce Hopkins suggests in his comment to post a profile of a "loaded" J2ME cell phone (one with a lot of JSRs). Here's the Nokia 9500. See: Pimp My Cell Phone: Nokia 9500 Here's the list of extreme makeover JSRs
Fo shizzle! Now, that's what I call a Java phone! Especially that JSR 36/46 combo. Oo-wee! (Who led those slammin' specs?) :-) J2ME CDC and Foundation Profile takes you from Oo-ya to Boo-ya, just like that, homey. Ain't no other phone I know with 10 JSRs. Anyone got one to match that? Word. |
Wednesday June 15, 2005
In order for OpenSolaris to do well, here's an article that points to IDC's assessment on what it will take to really be an effective force in the open source world. See: IDC says OpenSolaris should do as Java does Here's a quote: Sun could establish a strong community supporting its product, and this community could increase interest in Solaris and Sun's hardware products. Sun has been able to build a strong community around the Java platform (based on Sun's original Java products, which were widely adopted by many vendors)So, in order for OpenSolaris to do well, it needs to follow what Java technology has done. That's the ticket! Easy downloads, online docs, big conferences in San Francisco (with a video gamers lounge), and a Micro Edition that fits on cell phones. Wait-a-minute... Solaris on a cell phone... Hm... If I only had dtrace right now on the J2ME phone I'm working on! That would be cool! :-) |
Tuesday June 14, 2005 What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?
Jonathan Hawkins asks, "What version of J2ME and JSRs [are] on my phone??" He's talking about the very cool keypad-swinging Sony Ericsson s710a. See: Jonathan Hawkins asks about the version of Java I like to use phonescoop.com to google the specs. of specific phones. See: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=602 They say:
Nice. :) |
Monday June 13, 2005 Larry, Moe, Curly, oh, and Shemp! Nokia's 4 new slider Java phones
Nokia's got a new line of J2ME technology-enabled cell phones they launched today in Europe and in Asia. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck! Hey, Moe! They've got 3G WCDMA technology and sliders on 3 out of the 7. The 3 slider phones (Larry, Moe, and Curly) plus 1 clam-shell phone (Shemp) are now following the lead of other companies like Samsung who had introduced a slider Java phone a while back now and Motorola who has had clam-shell phones since before they invented the straight-hand in front of the nose block technique to keep from getting poked in they eyes by 2 forked fingers. See: To keep these 4 slider phones from being stooges (just another market follower), they are loaded with goodies like Java 3D for gaming and a quarter VGA color screen (240x320). Nice. Java 3D games will be driving the market on phones with the faster J2ME VMs and the faster CPUs. Is Java 3D going to keep these also-ran Nokia phones from becoming stooges? Soitainly! Woo-woo-woo! Ngyah-ngyah-ngyah. :-) Look-at-the-sky, look-at-the-sky. Java 3D! Ruff! |
Wednesday June 08, 2005 Luke, I am your father. I also have J2ME games...
The author of this article says the Samsung SGH-C230 Java technology-enabled cell phone looks like Darth Vader. That's a bit reaching. The only similarities I see are that D.V. and the SGH-C230 are both black. See: Samsung SGH-C230 plays J2ME games and looks like Luke's dad Sorta like saying an iPod looks like R2-D2! Well, okay, they do kinda look similar... especially around the droid restraining bolt. ;-) |
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