By: Gabriel Palomino

Gabriel Palomino — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:04:52 +0000

Hello,
I’ve been involved in Java Mobile techonlogy / Web Mobile from year 2000.
Europeans lead America with mobile technology but they don’t care, don’t panic, because Europe is not able to offer a standard solution that targets the mass market.
Globally technologically scaleable?
Today is really difficult to launch an European mobile application based in java, “our standard”,
Technologically has been a failure.
Manufacturers have implemented docens of different java versions in its phones, without control, without rules.
Currently it is not possible to launch a java mass market standard application without all the phones in front of you,… and stay ready to create docens of different versions.
Technical information from operators has been (from the beginning) very limited, just about a confidential secret.
Why we have a poor web mobile?
Maybe because operators want the control of it?
Now it seems free, ok, you can launch a web mobile by using XHTML but,
1) It won’t be compatible with WAP phones
2) Each phone supports a maximum page size (again incompatibilities).
3) You need to recognize the phone model to know the response maximum page size.
4) This information is not offered by operators neither by manufacturers.
so?
5) You need all the phones to test and get the information.
6) Is it an Impossible Mission??
Open standards?
Open standards based on private resources.
Open standards based on SMS business models available to “some” partners.
I’m mad about social, community, user generated, mobile web 2.0.
But, I’m afraid we don’t have technology to make it possible.
For that reason all the people is talkinng about mobile web 2.0 as a future.
In a near future, US ( as always ) will demostrate how to do it, majax, mac and macromedia will launch standards that will conquer the whole world, all the promised mobile web2.0 world.

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