Juergen Specht wrote:
> Zimran,
> Zimran Ahmed wrote:
> > I thought the group would be interested in our new free white paper on
> > wireless customer experience.
> this is a really good paper and a lot of people will not love to hear
> your arguments, but I found 2 things:
>
> > Q:Does it make sense to run Java on a wireless device?
> > A:No.Software written in Java is compiled when the program
> > runs,which means that the customer must wait extra time
> > for the software to start running.
>
> Don't mix your webbrowser experience here with mobile phone
> experience. There is one new I-Mode phone on the market
> (Panasonic P209i) which runs completly in Java (means internal
> everything is programmed in Java, but not with the new 'open'
> specifications) and there are NO startup times. Actually if
> you don't know about the Java inside, you will never see a
> difference between this phone and others. The 'boot time' (the
> moment a phone needs to initialize after switching on) is
> used to show a fancy animation (japanese people and I love
> this) but after that there is NO delay. I assume this will
> be the same with the new phones, so be careful with this argument.
>
There's an even bigger issue: DoCoMo's implementation of java on the 503
handsets is NOT applets; that is the java doesn't run in the browser. It's
midlets, and the run on the handset, not the browser.
r e n
>
> The second thing is a much bigger issue...you don't have
> this GREAT resource listed:
>
> Japan Mobile Information
> http://anima.editthispage.com/
>
> If you compare the articles here with some of your listed
> resources, you will see that some people in USA know how to
> take advantage of the timelap USA/Japan to provide "their"
> news...
>
> Anyway, thanks for your paper!
>
> Juergen
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