(keitai-l) Re: SOT: possible US 3G side step; PHS==802.11/metricom?

From: Michael Turner <leap_at_gol.com>
Date: 12/23/01
Message-ID: <000b01c18bbd$09147520$0c42d8cb@phobos>
From: "cfb" <cfb@nirai.ne.jp>
 
> There seems to be a bit of a landrush going on in both the fixed and
> mobile wireless areas;
[snip]
> Arguments for putting 802.11 in cell phones:
>  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20011221/1627210_F.shtml

Interesting bit from Microsoft in there:

| "Everybody is betting in multiple camps because the opportunity is
| tremendous," said Mike Wehrs, director of standards and
| technology for Microsoft's Mobile Group.
|
| "What they are going to give you is a constrained sandbox,"
| Wehrs said about the alliance. "J2EE is very constrained. If
| a handset manufacturer wanted to put an MP3 playback chip
| in a device, there is nothing in the Java environment that would
| allow you to do anything great with that hardware. You could
| do some rudimentary stuff. No one would characterize Java
| applications as a rich user experience."

"Rich user experience" on a handset?  I think the main use
of an MP3 chip on a handset would be something "rudimentary"
like, oh, I don't know, maybe piping the music into a pair of
headphones or something?  "Rich user experience" is, at that point,
up to the musical artists themselves, isn't it?  Or am I gonna
want to watch their MTV video on my little mobile screen?
Hmm.....

Am I missing something here, or is this standard Microsoft
watch-out-where-you-go-today Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
again?

-michael turner
leap@gol.com
Received on Sun Dec 23 16:44:32 2001