One thing I’m doing in my new digs at Nokia is trying to get out and speak to as many user groups as possible about Nokia’s technologies for mobile development. Example: My “J2ME at Five” presentation to the Bay Area Mobility Forum earlier this month.
As a part of this activity, I’ve been scouring [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Java User Groups
Monday, August 30, 2004
China and Korea: Mobile phone powerhouses
Friday, August 27, 2004
Nikkei Electronics Asia provides a decent overview of recent trends in subscribers and technologies in use in both China and South Korea.
The article discusses the current use and plans for both W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in China and Korea as well as China’s proprietary TD-SCDMA. Read the entire article to get to the Korean [...]
Feeling Groovy
Friday, August 27, 2004
Following up on an earlier post about the Groovy JSR being approved for JCP development: IBM developerWorks has posted a reasonable overview of Groovy entitled “Feeling Groovy“. Includes a number of examples you can try out yourself.
JTWI.next: The Mobile Service Architecture
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Nokia and Vodafone have proposed an update to JTWI for both CLDC and CDC based devices. Today they announced that this update, the Mobile Service Architecture, has been accepted by the JCP for development. Details from the press release: “Nokia and Vodafone to Lead Roadmap for Mobile Java Standards“.
I hinted at some [...]
BAMF first meeting feedback
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Mike Rowehl and Russ Beattie report on the first meeting and plans for future get togethers.
Thanks again to everyone who attended, asked questions, and hung around after my talk for discussion. We had a very good turnout for a first meeting, I believe 27 people was the official count, and 18 turned in a [...]
Nokia Developer's Suite 2.2 for J2ME released
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Nokia Developer’s Suite 2.2 for J2ME™ was released today.
NDS 2.2 supports Linux and Windows based J2ME development. New features include integration support for Eclipse 2.1.x and 3.0 as well as support for the open source Fedora Linux implementation.
More details including the installation requirements, release notes, and download link are available from Forum Nokia.
BAMF "J2ME at Five" slides
Saturday, August 21, 2004
I’ve posted slides for my Bay Area Mobility Forum presentation “J2ME at Five: Where We’ve Been, and Where We’ll Be at Ten” . Click here to access the slides.
Abstract:
Java technology took the wireless world by storm when the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) was first introduced for mobile devices, starting with [...]
Nokia overtakes Motorola in China
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Read the details in this “Nokia overtakes Motorola in China in June” Business Times article.
Series 60 Platform 2nd Edition Feature Pack 1
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
The Series 60 Platform 2nd Edition Feature Pack 1: What’s New – Lead Features And APIs v1.0 document provides details on new capabilities coming to Series 60.
Capabilities to note in Feature Pack 1:
EDGE support
MPix cellcam capabilities
Presence services and API
Mobile Terminated Location Requests (MT-LR)
Several new J2ME enhancements (additional MMA capabilities for instance) and minibrowser features
Learn more [...]
Worldwide CDMA adoption statistics
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
3GNewsroom.com has posted a summary of CDMA adoption worldwide as of Q2 2004. It’s particularly interesting to see the uptake of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and to note that the fastest growing region for CDMA by number of users is Asia-Pacific, not the Americas as many people might suspect given CDMA’s prominance in North America [...]
