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Nokia Extends Mobile Apps Development To Linux

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @01:38PM from the move-those-packets-of-data-about dept.

samgrover writes "According to this article, found on Google News, Nokia on Tuesday began offering a free, Java-based toolkit for developing mobile applications on the Linux platform, for deployment on Nokia mobile phones. The kit represents the first fully open-source offering for developing mobile applications, said Chris Preimesberger, a wireless analyst at Evans Data, in Redwood City, Calif."

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Microsoft.... by SpaceLifeForm · 2003-01-14 15:31 · Score: 2

...can you hear me now?

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Doesn't Nokia use j2me? by vidnet · 2003-01-15 02:37 · Score: 2

Sun's Wireless Toolkit have been available for linux for a long time. I've used it for writing midlets for my Motorola (including motorola specific libs). Does Nokia use some sick, twisted implementation?