(keitai-l) Re: Symbian stumbles; Microsoft swaggers; Palm and Linux out to lunch

From: Chris Houser <christopher.houser_at_gmail.com>
Date: 01/28/07
Message-ID: <6ca63eda0701271946h20856673la833665ebc4f46c1@mail.gmail.com>
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 14:12, Greg Conquest (home) wrote:
>
> > If I want a user-configurable phone/pda for Japan, with a community of
> > small developers and open projects, Windows Mobile is currently the
> > only
> > choice. Right? Please tell me I'm wrong here if I'm overlooking
> > something . . .

Symbian on DoCoMo M1000. (English info: google "motorola A1000".)

> > OpenMoko PDA soon? The real new Palm OS finally?

You'll grow real old awaiting these. =(

> > Everybody is tired on the platform changes and is just going to
> > JAVA . .

On 1/27/07, Kyle Barrow <kyle@pukupi.com> wrote:
>
> Japanese mobiles have never been open; Windows Mobile is an anomaly
> with a relatively tiny Japanese user base. If you want to build
> something for the broader Japanese market, do it in Java or Flash.

On phones, Java is hardly a platform-independent standard. MIDP?
DoCoMo's proprietary blend? Softbank? And Flash Lite is even more
crippled. =(

On 1/27/07, Kyle Barrow <kyle@pukupi.com> wrote:
>
> Palm is dead.

So sad. A very depressing thread, this.
Received on Sun Jan 28 05:46:34 2007