Wednesday January 24, 2007 iPhone, you're no Java ME smartphone
As U.S. Democratic VP candidate, Lloyd Bentsen would have put it in a debate, "iPhone, I worked with smartphones, I know smartphones, smartphones are a friend of mine. iPhone, you're no smartphone." See: Here's a quote: ABI Research defines a smartphone as a cellular handset using an open, commercial operating system that supports third party applications. “It turns out that this device will be closed to third party applications. Therefore we must conclude at this point that, based on our current definition, the iPhone is not a smartphone: it is a very high-end feature phone.”The article goes on to say that feature phones have weak or limited apps that run on Java or BREW. Well, smartphones will need to have strong, advanced apps that run on Java then. So, get to work all you software geeks! See: phoneME Advanced open source project. |
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