Nik, can you tell me (us) a little more about the polling mechanism? My guess
is this is what keeps a connection alive at some electronic level, and is thus
built into the hardware. So then it wouldn't be available to a developer who
wants to push some custom info like, say, baseball scores.
So, yeah I guess push is kind of a matter of degree. I mean, email, an
incoming call, or the (proprietary?) weather feature are all examples of info
being pushed to the handset. Too bad there's not a java email API for the
handsets. That would get around the limitation of not having an IP address.
--Jason
>
>
> You are assuming that all of the services depend on having an address. This
> is clearly not the case:
> 'Station', one of our services that has been around for a couple of years,
> uses the polling mechanism, that all mobile phones use to keep in touch with
> the nearest cell, in order to push content out to phones at regular
> intervals. It clearly isn't i-mode, but it is another way of approaching the
> same problem: One very elegant feature of Vodafone in Japan is the weather
> indicator on the screen. It updates itself at intervals using station. This
> is pure push--weather information is being pushed from a base station
> directly into the handset.
>
> Best,
>
> Nik Frengle
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