Purpose: Archive information on developing applications for Java Platform, Micro Edition (formerly J2ME) powered devices. Java ME Application and Tool Repositories Repository Brief description midlet.org Nice OTA MIDlet site including several hundred free Midlets broken out into categories and separable by “device filters” and a search interface Nokia Software Market Buy applications for Nokia devices [...]
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More on iPhone 1.1.1 firmware
Friday, September 28, 2007
Apple has posted a video on yesterday’s iPhone 1.1.1 firmware update. Click here to go to the video page. David Pogue also blogged about the new features here.
iPhone firmware updated for WiFi iTunes
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Apple has finally pushed out the WiFi iTunes iPhone firmware promised by Jobs several weeks ago and Pogue a couple of hours ago. Fire up your desktop iTunes and connect your iPhone to download and install the update. And be prepared to wait, as this firmware takes several minutes to download and install. Far longer [...]
Nokia and Motorola: Two horse race, soon to be three?
Friday, February 2, 2007
Last July I wondered in writing about Q2 2006 NOK and MOT numbers: Is mobile handset design and marketing now a two horse race? As reported in this Chicago Tribune story on Q4 2006 results, the answer appears to be a big “Yes”. According to the Strategy Analytics numbers quoted by the Tribune: Nokia increased [...]
Is iPhone WiFi preferable for cord cutters?
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Alan A. Reiter of Camera Phone Report and Thomas Landspurg of TomSoft both left thoughtful comments on my “WiFi is more important than HSDPA for early iPhone success” blog post from last week. Tom wrote: My main point would be that the two places where you’re most likely to have WiFi coverage (the home and [...]
iPhone week one
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
There have been a lot of so-so and a few really great articles on iPhone in the week since it was launched. What follows are my favorite blog posts, articles, and videos covering iPhone in week one. David Pogue published an early first pass in his “Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone” after spending about [...]
WiFi is more important than HSDPA for early iPhone success
Friday, January 12, 2007
Reuters is reporting that Nokia’s media head, Anssi Vanjoki, has described iPhone as “quite interesting” but said in effect that the lack of 3G will cripple it in the marketplace. Nokia, or at least Mr. Vanjoki, doesn’t get it. And a lot of other people are falling prey to this too. In a perfect device [...]
The Apple iPhone lives
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
The speculation and rumors and leaks were basically right: Steve Jobs has announced the Apple iPhone. (Click here to discuss in the BillDay.com iPhone forum) Touch screen tech known as “multi-touch”, uses your finger, almost entire front of device is screen 3.5 inch 480 x 320 widescreen, 160ppi 11.6mm thick, “thinner than the Q and [...]
Nokia unveils Wibree
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Interesting news: “Nokia unveils Bluetooth rival“. OK, maybe “Bluetooth’s little brother” would be more accurate than “rival”. Or should that be “Bluetooth and WiFi’s love child”? Or maybe “Bluetooth’s Mini-Me”? Whatever it is, you can read David Berlind’s early analysis in his ZDNet blog here. Hopefully Nokia Research will be posting details soon.
Wireless hacking techniques
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Filed under “know thy enemy”: Prabhaker Mateti has published “Hacking Techniques in Wireless Networks“. This is an excellent overview of wireless network attacks including a wireless LAN overview, sniffing, spoofing, probing, and more. The section on access point weaknesses is particularly interesting because the subject doesn’t seem to get as much coverage as many of [...]
