these are very interesting (thank you dc) ideas for a lot of reasons. as
many of you know, a lot of people are characterizing the battle for
"platform" dominance in the mobile phone to be between Nokia and Microsoft.
for example, see last week's article in the economist.
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1454300&subjectID=348909&emailauth=%2527%2528%2520%252E2H%255EW%255CSP%2521%252E%250A
but if a java portal becomes important then who cares about Microsoft's OS
and application programs? instead the issue is java, which is basically
limited by the app size. but the app size will increase as processor speeds
and memory sizes increase. for example, current 504 phones have about
100-200 MHz clock rates or 1/100 the capability of processors on current
PCs (2.2 GHz). but these rates basically double each year and two to the
seventh power is 128.
jeff funk
At 18:42 02/12/04 +0900, you wrote:
>
>there are some java apis to render chtml panels. theoretically java =
>should be able to call the browser as a renderer so you could have a =
>java front end portal (but instead i think for now java has a subset of =
>chtml as separate classes, eg no scrolling text panels etc).
>
>there are some cybird apps where you can try the app and then subscribe =
>thru the java app itself, but i haven't seen a full java portal so far. =
>interesting idea. it seems the carriers are pushing in the other =
>direction, eg bandai channel is not what it used to be - docomo just =
>want them to list individual apps rather than a whole portal =
>destination.
>
>there are a few apps which replace your mail interface too. and the =
>calendar can be replaced by a java diary etc (especially with the new =
>shamail phones I can see this as a lot of fun over the simple =
>appointment stuff).
>
>a full fledged java portal machiuke seems a very interesting idea, with =
>mail etc. when the app size limit is a bit bigger on docomo it should be =
>no problem.
>
>/dc
>
Received on Thu Dec 5 02:24:11 2002