(keitai-l) Re: developing java applets for i-mode

From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda_at_msdw.com>
Date: 07/12/00
Message-ID: <396C04C6.1FB4B446@msdw.com>
Melissa Hao wrote:

> Hi, I am wondering about the status of being able to look at java
> applets on cell phones.  I am new to this technology, so please bear
> with me.  :)
>
> My company would like me to design an applet for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode.
> At this time, is it possible to run applets on any cell phone?

Not yet.

>  It
> seems like no commercially available cell phones has KVM on it; also,
> the java "profile" API for cellhpones doesn't seem to be available
> yet.

Correct.

>  However, I understand that cellphones running java applets were
> demoed at the 99 JavaOne converence.  If it's at all possible to run
> java on a cellphone now, that would be fantastic...
>

Commercially available supposedly by end of 2000.

Java spec is Java 2 Micro Edition but specifics of API (re. handset
interface, etc.) have not been released.

r e n



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Received on Wed Jul 12 08:35:13 2000