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20070608 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!

[Java ME and J2ME] ( June 08, 2007 11:15 AM ) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

Good point. I should have mentioned that the multitasking applies to Java as well as S60 applications, and you can use both types simultaneously if you want. I'll try to correct that right now, actually.

Posted by krisse on June 08, 2007 at 11:55 AM PDT #


Hi Krisse,

Thanks for the comment! Nice article, by the way (Except the part about Java being slow as mud, of course. But, that's an implementation detail, right? ;-))

Hinkmond

Posted by Hinkmond Wong on June 08, 2007 at 01:49 PM PDT #

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