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New Nokia Phones - with Java

Posted by michael on from the anti-virus-software-not-included dept.

scrm writes: "Nokia just released a slew of new phones at CEBIT. Among them are two phones - a full-color phone and a cheap n' cheerful model - both of whose software can be upgraded with Java applications." And Haggis writes "Nokia are to use the Opera browser in the latest incarnation of their everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink mobile phone, the 9210i. Oh, and it will run Java applets too."

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  1. Already there ... by dago · · Score: 5, Informative

    It makes (at least) 6 months since SIM cards with java have been shipped to customer (in Europe).

    So, it is already there in many phones and peoples already made some applets for them

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  2. Re:multiplayer on PDA by dzym · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not too much longer. Games such as Doom and Quake that have had their source code released have already been ported to various PDA platforms, and I wouldn't think it's much more of a stretch to operate a wireless tcp/ip dedicated server for these things...

  3. Applets? by rbeattie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's use 6 year old terminology shall we?

    The Nokia 7210 and 3410 will both most likely be using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) which is a subset of Java that runs on low power devices. They'll be able to run "midlets" which are like applets in the sense that they run in a sandbox, but don't derive from the Applet class and are made to run in low memory and be connected via wireless connections. It'll be good for small connected apps like stock quotes, email, and games. But with no support for multimedia now (sound) don't expect these games to be anything amazing.

    The Nokia 9210i runs on Symbian which is a full-fledged 32 bit OS derived from the EPOC platform. The Java integration in Symbian is based on Personal Java, but the Symbian guys have integrated Java deeply in the OS, which means you can access all the same APIs and functionality as you can with C++ programming. These will run pretty much full-fledged Java apps (based on a modified JDK 1.1 spec) and can't be compared to applets at all.

    -Russ

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    1. Re:Applets? by jamesidm · · Score: 5, Informative

      wow they have ported VNC to it already!

      http://midlet.org/jsp/category.jsp?parentLevel=1 37

      2nd from the bottom

  4. Re:multiplayer on PDA by -brazil- · · Score: 5, Informative
    Theoreticall, it is already possible right now. I've run Quake on my IPaq, in two-player over Ethernet (with the partner using a PC). It should work the same using Infrared and possibly Bluetooth.


    Of course, the playability is very low. What we need for this to be really worth the bother is games that are designed for the small display and limited input ability of PDAs.

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