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If you weren’t following the various Java announcements at JavaOne 2008 last week, the following discussion between Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green gives not only a really great overview, bit also gives some visibility about the ambition that Sun’s senior management have for the “new Java”. Enjoy…
Interesting news from Sun. Sun’s VP Java Marketing just told The Register that Sun will be making a version of Java for iPhone. It seems that they feel that the iPhone SDK offers enough freedom that they can build a JVM on top of it. Here’s the quote…
We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking [...]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android [...]
It’s been a while now since Google’s Android announcement, and as people digest what details there are, it’s clear that we’re short of more than a few important facts. Of course, the way Android’s communications are handled is entirely up to Google and the rest of the “open” handset alliance. However, for every [...]
As the technical details about Android, Google’s mobile phone operating system, begin to surface, we’re starting to get the first glimpses of how it compares to other upcoming phone OS platforms. One key question is: how will Android compare to Sun’s JavaFX Mobile platform?
While both Android and JavaFX Mobile seem to be what you [...]
I’ve been using a new mobile phone, the Nokia 6500 Classic, for a few days now. Overall, I can say it’s the best mobile phone I’ve ever used. Here’s why…
Pros:
Supremely pocketable - a mobile phone should be easy to carry around. This phone is only 9.5mm thick and 45mm wide; and [...]
For more than half a decade, the Java ME community has held enormous promise. Sun Microsystems has created an amazing mobile software development platform - Java ME. Mobile handset makers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and RIM are building increasingly feature-rich handsets such that all the amazing features can be accessed by Java [...]
Sun just announced JavaFX? What is it? Here’s the short answer:
JavaFX Script - the heart of JavaFX. A new scripting language that makes it easy to code sophisticated, dynamic, animated user interfaces. JavaFX Script runs on top of Java SE - think of it as making Swing and Java2D easier [...]
I remember the day when SavaJe first made available a release of its brand new OS - it must have been around five years ago (maybe a bit longer). On that day, we were in the middle of developing a Java application that ran on PDAs, like the Compaq iPAQ. PDAs were an [...]
Apple is about to find out just how competitive the mobile phone handset business is. Yesteday, Samsung announced a new handset - the Ultra Smart F700. It looks like it could kick Apple right where it hurts.
Like the iPhone, the F700 has a large touch screen. But unlike the iPhone, the Samsung [...]