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Qualcomm's BREW Gets GCC Support

Posted by timothy on from the ring-ring dept.

bigjocker writes "Now you can use GCC to build BREW applications. Very good news for us BREW developers who use linux and have to install MS VC++ just for compiling the apps."

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  1. Brew is still problematic by Jahf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Brew is still a very closed system as far as having to have the application signed to get it to run, and I haven't seen any good "do it yourself" methods. I would still much rather have a J2ME (Java) phone.

    Not saying this is bad, getting GCC support is great for anything like this (I wish that GCC could compile targets for my Neuros), just weighing in on Brew in general.

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  2. Review of phone APIs by ArmorFiend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For a long time I've been wondering how to hack my cellphone. This BREW thing looks a little...cough...heavy. Is programability only a feature of high end phones?

    I work for a bike courier company. I want to overlay the text message functionality with my own menus and logic. Basically we get runs as text messages, then I want to hit 1 key to reply with "run recieved", then another for "pick up complete", then another for "drop off complete". I also want to load in the metrics of our (grid shaped) city and have it run the travelling salesman problem for me. (ya ya, its NP-complete, but still EZ for n=3 runs)