(keitai-l) Re: i-Mode push technology

From: Frengle, Nik, VF-JP <nik.frengle_at_vodafone.com>
Date: 08/04/04
Message-ID: <67EA1F678C9E0446978FEB829F643DCC0245BBC5@VFJPOTM-WIEX002.intra.j-phone.com>
Jason,

>As a technical point, I don't think true 'push' is possible yet because the
>keitais don't have Internet IP addys.  All kinds of cool stuff would be
>possible if they did have them -- IM, weather, stocks, games, etc.


You are assuming that all of the services depend on having an address. This is clearly not the case:
'Station', one of our services that has been around for a couple of years, uses the polling mechanism, that all mobile phones use to keep in touch with the nearest cell, in order to push content out to phones at regular intervals.  It clearly isn't i-mode, but it is another way of approaching the same problem: One very elegant feature of Vodafone in Japan is the weather indicator on the screen. It updates itself at intervals using station. This is pure push--weather information is being pushed from a base station directly into the handset. 

Best,

Nik Frengle		
Received on Wed Aug 4 09:53:44 2004