Friday June 08, 2007 Nokia's S40 vs. S60: Float like a butterfly and sting like Java ME
Here's a head-to-head competition of Nokia's Series 40 vs. Series 60 phones from krisse. It's tougher to distinguish between a smartphone and a feature phone nowadays. Which is which? See: Don't want no rematch! Adrian!!! Here's a quote: S60 phones also have a huge trump card over Series 40: they're multi- tasking. As long as you have enough RAM, you can use many S60 applications at once and switch between them at any time just by holding down the menu key. Series 40 phones have to close the currently running Java application before they can start another app.One thing's for sure is that because the S60 is multitasking, there's lots more chance for Java ME CDC technology to do some fun stuff on the system level on those phones, like more OS type functions (wrapped in Java calls). Eye of the tiger, baby! I pity the fool!
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Thursday June 07, 2007 Where to buy that inflatible sheep: Use your Java ME cell phone
Sprint has added a new Java ME technology app that lets you use the GPS data from your cell phone to locate where to buy 85 million products from nearby stores. See: Use Java ME to shop til you drop Here's a quote: The application, called Slifter, was developed by New York City-based GPShopper. Slifter is already available for free via SMS wireless Web or Java application downloads on almost any carrier's phone. But until now consumers have had to type in their ZIP code to find products and stores.Cool stuff! I wonder what happens when you type "iPhone" and you're standing on the corner of N. De Anza Blvd. & Infinite Loop in Cupertino, Calif... Hmmm... I don't have a Sprint phone, so I wouldn't know. |
Wednesday June 06, 2007 Project Orbit (now in lemon-lime)
Raju Bitter has a blog post about the Project Orbit podcast that Max Carlson and I did in the past with Roger Brinkley. See: Here's a quote: Project Orbit is the Sun Java ME viewer for Laszlo DHTML applications on set-top boxes and smart cell phones.Project Orbit, for a good cleeeean feeling. No matter what! (Now in lemon-lime).
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Tuesday June 05, 2007 Blimey! Finally Java ME tech beating inane ringtones in the UK
It took 7 years, but finally Java ME is the number one revenue generator for mobile content (in UK as measured by total mobile content revenue). MIDP now has a firm foothold in the mobile market that took a while to achieve. This is another good lesson we learned in Java ME tech that applies to the future of both JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile. It takes many years for adoption of a new programming model in the consumer world. So, don't expect much more than a very narrow market niche for both JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile for the next 5-7 years or more. It will take as much time or more compared with the adoption rate of Java ME technology as we saw evidenced by the data. See: Java ME technology is finally king Here's a quote: "In the last year mobile gaming has really taken off and now leads the mobile content market in terms of the amount of money consumers are spending. Clearly, gamers are happy to pay to download, with half of all the games downloaded to a mobile phone..."With Java ME tech as the number one revenue generator on mobile phones, there will be a feedback-loop that will keep MIDP going as the preferred legacy programming model going forward. Vertically integrated phones, like the one that starts with the letter "i" ;-) will be left in the dust, not supporting MIDlet games. We'll see on June 29th when the iPhone ships... Maybe. ;-) |
Monday June 04, 2007 Windows Mobile 5.0 blows, slim Java ME phones rule
One lesson for our JavaFX Mobile offering is to watch for what people complain about when talking about latest cell phones. Here's one blogger who decided to ditch his Windows Mobile 5.0 phone. See: Blogger ditches his Winblows Mobile Here's a quote: It runs Windows Mobile 5.0, which means my phone regularly crashes, slows down, or freezes up. Any idea how much I hate having to reboot my phone?? Because it is running Windows Mobile 5.0 on the same battery as my phone, it basically sucks battery like mad.Electronic consumers don't put up with much, especially when it comes to an electronic device crashing, freezing, or being slow. With Java ME CDC technology, we've been working on avoiding all the pitfalls by properly subsetting Java SE technology on a constrained system. With our experience contributing to JavaFX Mobile project, this will mean we don't start from scratch, and don't start off with the boat anchor legacy Windows Mobile 5.0 started with by trying to stay tied to the Windows on the desktop technology. |
Friday June 01, 2007 Can you play Lumines? No, but if you hum a few bars, I can try...
Nokia has announced their new Java ME technology-enabled N75 and N76 clamshell style Series 60 cell phones. See: Here's a quote: Both include a two megapixel digital camera and can play some of the most advanced Java mobile games, like Lumines.Lumines? Lumines??? Isn't that like a glorified Tetris game? Oooo... both can play some of THE most advanced Java ME games... I never knew moving blocks around was so "advanced". ;-) It must be all in the technique. |
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