Hi,
Why you say that i-Mode phones don't have an IP Address?
Are you talking about Japanese i-Mode phones only?
Thanks
Jofre
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> De: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]En nombre de Jason Pollard
> Enviado el: miercoles, 04 de agosto de 2004 10:22
> Para: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Asunto: (keitai-l) Re: i-Mode push technology
>
>
> Nik, can you tell me (us) a little more about the polling
> mechanism? My guess
> is this is what keeps a connection alive at some electronic
> level, and is thus
> built into the hardware. So then it wouldn't be available to a
> developer who
> wants to push some custom info like, say, baseball scores.
>
> So, yeah I guess push is kind of a matter of degree. I mean, email, an
> incoming call, or the (proprietary?) weather feature are all
> examples of info
> being pushed to the handset. Too bad there's not a java email API for the
> handsets. That would get around the limitation of not having an
> IP address.
>
> --Jason
>
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
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