(keitai-l) Re: Clossing Walled Gardens and Java vs. NativeApplications

From: Jonas Petersson <zap_at_xms.se>
Date: 05/13/03
Message-ID: <3EC08D3B.31DA4DED@xms.se>
Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Giovanni Bertani wrote:
> > Native applications, avaible SDKs and the possibility of distributing=

> > applications are some of the elements for innovation, having a
> > common OS with a shared property between handset
> > producers (Symbian).
> =

> Well, if having a common system between handsets is considered an
> advantage, Java probably wins out over Symbian.

In theory, yes - this is exactly what Java was designed for.
In practice, the java currently available in most phones does not allow
you to access phone book, camera etc so basically you can only use it
for games.

Hopefully this will change - the P800 seems better.

		/ Jonas - now availble as zap@cynic.net ;-)
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Received on Tue May 13 09:17:13 2003