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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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 [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
The love child of Nokia’s cozying up to Eclipse and its purchase of Metrowerks’ Symbian tools and team has been born: Nokia has introduced a new family of Symbian C++ development tools christened “Carbide.c++”. It interesting to note that Carbide.c++ tools support not only Nokia’s Series 60 and Series 80, but also UIQ favored by [...]
Friday, February 18, 2005
I’ve been reading the deluge of reports and press releases from the 3GSM World Congress 2005 which wrapped up yesterday in Cannes. Expanding upon last year’s limited Sun and Intel & Nokia 3GSM posts, I thought this year I’d summarize the major wireless developments via links to various 3GSM bits from around the Web. Starting [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Read all about it from the SDA press release on Yahoo: Nokia and Sony Ericsson Join SD Card Association
It’s nice to have TheFeature and Reiter’s Camera Phone Report agree with me that cellcams are displacing dedicated digicams. What’s even nicer is the excerpt they’ve pulled from BusinessWeek: Sony Ericsson president Katsumi Ihara says that Sony has ceded the low-end camera market to mobile phones. OK, so it is a done deal. Look out [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Following up on my earlier entries on Motorola Linux smartphones and recent device announcements from various manufacturers: Motorola has announced a new music-oriented Linux mobile phone, the E680. It has all the bells and whistles including J2ME gaming support, 3D stereo speakers, MP3 and MPEG4 video playback, a VGA quality digicam, and the ability to [...]
Among the stats in this article on Sony Ericsson’s new phones, more information on the rise of cellcams, including plans from several of the leading cell phone vendors for megapixel+ cellcams in 2004. How well will these new SE devices compete with upcoming Moto phones and Nokia’s plans? The multi-billion dollar the question…