Java ME and Flash Lite expert in Forum Nokia Americas, Mountain View. Besides mobile technologies, interested in HCI and the use of technology in sports.
Category: Java
This is sort of old news, but I realized I have not written about this before... Tira Wirless has a free version of its modd mobile device database available on the net (there is also for-fee Standard and Enterprise Editions). The database covers quite a nice number of manufacturers and...
Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days are go! As my talk was already, I can also point you the location where you can follow the sessions live. Big thanks to Terrence and Roger to get this event off the ground!
Just got a notification by email that the JavaOne 2008 Call for Papers is open. The call for papers closes on November 16th. More information here .
Also remember to submit your proposals to Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Day . The call for proposals for this even closes on October...
As mentioned before eSWT plug-in for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 SDK is out. My esteemed colleague Jarmo Lahtinen has spent some time with that plug-in, basically creating a new version of his flie browser MIDlet.
The differences in the UIs are notable. Here is an example of the...
In case you have missed, eSWT plugin for S60 3rd Edition FP2 SDK is available. There are not yet any devices available to run your enhanced MIDlets, but you will be able to get started with more compelling UIs with this plug-in.
I feel kind of betraying the Flash Lite crowd by posting about a Java event while sitting at the Nokia booth at Adobe MAX ...
Anyhow, I just noticed at Terrence Barr's blog that there will be a mobile Java developer days (well, Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days ) in Santa Clara,...
If yes and yes, you might want to sign up to Jonathan Knudsen 's hands-on tutorial on Java ME .
As some of you might have noted, the beta version for the MIDP SDK for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 has been available from Forum Nokia for a couple of weeks now. The SDK (and also platform in question) introduces the subset of MSA specification (JSR-248), which means that also MIDP 2.1 is...
Found some extra time to listen to one of Phil's S60 podcasts ( Podcast #28 ). The most recent one is an interview of Tommi Sihvola, one of the inventors of Widsets . (Quick summary: Widsets are mobile widgets that enable anyone to create, publish and share internet content to be accessed on...
Kiran Trivedi organized a Java ME mobile application development event in Bhavnagar on September 14th. It seems that more than 200 people participated in that very successful event. Congrats Kiran!
Also I saw from the pictures that a familiar face was there to give some presentations :-)...
I finally had some extra time at hand to read through the questions and answers about MSA (Mobile Service Architecture) on Sun Developer Network. I was surprised to see a couple of questions about retrieving the CellIDs, IMSI, and IMEI information on Java ME platform. Surprised in a way, that...
The same way Forum Nokia has had the Interviews on our discussion boards, Sun is organizing it's " Ask the Experts " events on it's Web site. Next week - August 20-24 - the topic is going to be Mobile Service Architecture / MSA / JSR-248 and the experts in charge are Mikhail Gorshenev, E-ming...
This is likely old news for some people, but after finding this out myself only recently through this thread on the FN Discusion boards, I thought a wider notification is in place to reduce further confusion.
Even though the SDK for Nokia 6131 NFC , contains the full Javadoc for...
Some people have likely already noticed that Content Handler API ( JSR-211 ) is listed in the device specs for a couple announced Series 40 phones. Namely 6500 Classic and 6500 Slide , which should be out during the third quarter of this year.
The inclusion of CHAPI is not a typo. This...
More than a week since I posted... man, time flies! Better get on with the habit of daily posts from now on...
Today I spent some time checking the API access rights for unsigned and signed MIDlets on a number of Nokia devices. The results can be found here . If anyone has time to add more...