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Purpose:
Archive information on developing applications for Java Platform, Micro Edition (formerly J2ME) powered devices.
Java ME Application and Tool Repositories
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Brief description
[...]
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Motorola: http://tinyurl.com/2qy58l #
John C. Dvorak disagrees with me on the potential of iPhone.
Dvorak makes a good point about the pace of innovation in the mobile industry which Apple would be very wise to note:
These phones go in an out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even [...]
Motorola’s first quarter earnings aren’t looking good, and the market’s rewarding MOT with a big fat drop (stock closed down 6.62% for the day, at a new 52-week low).
What happened? In a word, Razr. In a few words: Too much Razr, too little else.
SeekingAlpha also notes:
Zander said that the second quarter would [...]
The 61st installment of the Carnival is out. Jan Kuczynski has posted number 61 on Wireless World Japan, complete with a Matsuri theme.
My “Two horse race, soon to be three” post on the mobile handset market made the cut. Thanks Jan!
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 Q4 [...]
A Cingular sales rep named Danny Orange posted to The Boy Genius Report yesterday about what he’s hearing from customers on the iPhone.
This launch will be huge. I am a cingular sales rep and all we heard all day today were customers coming in and asking questions about the iphone. Many of the [...]
We’ve been talking about this for a couple of years now, but here’s yet more evidence that smartphones with a little ’s’ are leaving PDAs (remember those?) in the dust. Key stats:
During the first six months of 2006, PDA+smartphone shipments grew 57% versus first half of 2005
Shipments totaled 42.1 million units
34.7 million of those [...]
Nokia Q2 numbers are out. In a nutshell:
NOK shipped 78.4 million phones in Q2 2006 compared to 60.8 million units in Q2 2005
Smart phone (Nokia Multimedia unit) revenues rose 37% to 1.89 billion euros ($2.36 billion)
Average selling price declined to 102 euros ($127) from 105 euros, due to large volumes of cheap phones in [...]
C. Enrique Ortiz notes that the JSR-271 expert group is asking developers to take an online survey to help them best craft the UI features specified in the upcoming MIDP 3.
Get the latest status on JSR-271 and click here to take the MIDP 3 UI survey.