From: "Paul Lester" <paul_lester@lincmedia.co.jp>
> One thing to note with phones is that its a mixed list.
> All NEC phones, Toshiba Phones, Panasonic phones
> (regardless of DoCoMo, JPhone or TuKa) have certain
> quirks in common.
Presumably because they use the same chips or
families thereof. I.e., what we've been call a 'mobile
device' is better thought of 'a package of mobile devices.'
Including 'browser' as a 'device.'
> In addition restricting ourselves to DoCoMo, the SO
> phones, D Phones, P Phones of whatever series have certain
> big similarities.
>
> Now also, the 503, 210 ,211 series have a different set of
similarities.
>
> So in effect we have 4 superclasses.... Manufacturer (P D F SH ER...)
Series: (FOMA 503 210
> 501....)
> and Provider: (AU, TuKa, JPhone, DoCoMo), and also we have
> another clincher, browser; (EZWeb JPhone and DoCoMo)
> They all are relevant!
Four superclasses in a multiple-inheritance OO framework.
Oh boy.
As a first cut, then, it seems you'd want default characterization
for each of these, subclassing for quirks, bugs and features.
In a relational framework, this is four tables to join, with a fair
amount of redundancy in each table to make up for the
lack of inheritance. And a fifth table where rows represent
actual handsets. Breaking it up that way might make it
more manageable.
> These things aren't in synch with each other. And this excludes Korea,
Taiwan
> and Europe (US is still to far behind to worry about).
Thank god for small favors.
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
> Christian Molstrom wrote:
>
> > On advantage of the inheritance thing is dealing with an
> > device that is unknown to the database. In such cases you
> > can:
> >
> > 1. return no data
> > 2. return the best fit
> >
> > 1 is not very useful from service point of view, if that is
> > what the aim is. 2 is great because it means that you will
> > at least get information about the device that will
> > (probably) guarantee playable or viewable media.
> >
> > Suppose DoCoMo comes out with a new 212 series. 10 phones
> > are planned, but like always they come out a staggard times
> > over the course of a year. With the inheritance thing you
> > can have a generic 212 device that will contain profile data
> > not only common to all the 212s but more importantly, data
> > that is the least common denominator of all the phones.
> >
> > In practice would this be THAT useful if developers are
> > diligent in maintaining the data set? Maybe not. However,
> > the idea of a system that can deal in some way with an
> > unknown device is appealing.
> >
> > Christian
> >
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Received on Wed Feb 27 06:15:32 2002