JavaFX Mobile - Emulators and Developer Phones Coming Soon
With all the news coverage surrounding Google’s new Android platform, I wondered what the state of play was with Sun’s new JavaFX Mobile platform was. It seems that the current state of play is this: software emulators, and actual developer handsets (built by openmoko, at a guess), will be made available near the beginning of 2008.
In previous incarnations, the basic platform has been “almost ready” for a couple of years now. The big questions are: a) whether Sun has been able to debug the platform to the point where it’s robust; and b) whether the hardware has moved on to the point where the technology can run smoothly (as opposed to being slow and clunky). JavaFX Mobile devices promise a lot of benefits for developers and consumers alike - let’s hope the platform delivers.
No official word yet on whether any handset manufacturers are committed to bringing JavaFX Mobile handsets to market (although there are rumours that at least one commercial agreement is in place).
MobileTrend wrote:
So is there any futher news about it?
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 4:57 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Yes. The ambitions for JavaFX Mobile have grown a lot since 2007. Previously, the idea was that there would be special, niche, JavaFX Mobile handsets. However, it seems that the positive response from mobile handset manufacturers was such that now the plan is to put JavaFX on essentially every mobile phone.
That is, the aim is to get JavaFX onto billions of handsets. JavaFX Mobile is scheduled to be ready in the summer of 2009. That is, about a year from now.
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 5:31 pm ¶