William asks:
>This is a very fundamental question, and I'm also new to this space, so
>forgive me also...
>If an application developer wants to test, and deliver, J2ME
applications
>OTA directly to consumers in the US independent of carrier how is this
done?
>We have several applications we are applications we are interested in
>distributing free off charge here in the US but are having trouble
figuring
>out how to get started.
>In Japan developers are free to make their apps available to the
general
>public as "unofficial" content providers. Can this be done in the U.S.
also?
It depends on the carrier.
AT&T, Sprint, and most of the T-Mobile area does allow for J2ME apps to
be loaded from any WAP address. Nextel does not.
I don't know about Cingular.
Verizon is BREW ... and it's locked to only load apps from their
service.
Bill Volk
Teknik
Received on Thu Jul 17 02:50:10 2003