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20050113 Thursday January 13, 2005

Customizable J2ME Technology

In the next generation of J2ME technology-enabled cell phones, it will be important that the phone's software be completely customizable including GUI skins, ringtones, themes, apps, games, content, etc.

See:

The Customizable J2ME Cell Phone

The way to do this without locking into a phone, carrier, manufactuere, platform, CPU, or OS, is to have the J2ME technology layer handle all of the customization in Java. The abstraction of customization in Java allows for cross-platform and upward compatible migration of your settings to always go with you in a legacy fashion. Good idea to keep in mind when addressing the demands of the hundreds of millions of future cell phone consumers.

[Java ME and J2ME] ( January 13, 2005 01:13 PM ) Permalink | Comments [1]

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While I love the idea of full customization of cell phones - I'm not sure that using J2ME as the glue makes the most sense (although it does make some sense) - perhaps xml + javascript + media + zip archives may provide a simpler alternative? Sort of like Konfabulator widgets or Laszlo blog widgets - but for mobiles? Although Java + xml + media (compiled into a jar) is about the same...isn't it?

Posted by Bryan Rieger on January 13, 2005 at 03:05 PM PST #

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