Sun Debuts Java 'iPhone'

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that this week at the JavaOne Conference, Sun debuted it's answer to the iPhone. While it is still months away from being a reality this phone is set to put them in direct competition with some of the top cellphone vendors. "Java Mobile FX is "a complete desktop-scale environment that puts the network in your hand," said Richard Green, executive vice president of Sun's software group, announcing the product in his keynote address. Sun ported the Savaje code to a Linux kernel and is expanding the applications programming interfaces and set of developer tools that will ship with it. It plans to make the code available on other platforms in the future. Sun has no licensees for Java Mobile FX yet. However, it is in conversations with carriers and handset makers now and hopes to see cellphones using the software ship in early 2008. "

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[mekane8]

does it run Lin- errr... Does it run jav- errr... Will it let me see pr0n?

Much like pornography...

[MrPerfekt]

I can't get excited about it without pictures.

Re:Much like pornography...

[gstoddart]

I can't get excited about it without pictures.

Think of it as more of a Penthous Letters scenario ....

The glistening, sleek case glinted in the moonlight, inviting me to reach out and caress it's luscious buttons. I longed to place a phone call, but decided to prolong my desire just a little longer and drink in it's plasticky smoothness ...

Or ... not. :-P

Cheers

Re:more than a replacement

[Rei]

If it's anything like my experience with Java, you'll have to use version 7.4.2-6 of the cell phone communication protocol, because 7.4.2-7 has some changes that break the phone in confusing ways, and 7.5.0 is right-out. The phone will default everything to a hideous grey interface that ignores the styles that you set for all of your other devices, and will insist on making you do the most basic phone operations in the "Java" manner. It will ignore half of the capabilities of the underlying phone hardware in a failed attempt to be cross-platform, and your calls will run at a tenth the speed that they do on other phones. For makers of add-on modules, there will be half a million libraries, and you'll have to dedicate years of your life to be able to get past being a novice developer.

There will be 86 editions of the Java iPhone. For your particular uses, you want Enterprise J2Mobile3EE JCC, release 3. Don't use release 2 of the phone; it's deprecated.

The Java iPhone will become an immediate success in that businesses, after reading ads about it, will mandate that their employees all use them at work.

Like that's a good idea?

[Overzeetop]

Driving and talking is bad enough.

Re:From TFA

[Paulrothrock]

Can anybody explain this to me?

They tried to make trinary version of the software, but they found it was hard to make it compatible with various systems.

Re:Maybe people should just wait

[sameeer]

You haven't heard of the Zune-killer?

It's called Zune.

Re:Like that's a good idea?

[Anonymous Coward]

But how about those of us who take Public Transportation?