Compared with the WINDOWS platform development technology, in 2004, in the field of embedded mobile development can be described as lively. In June, Microsoft Mobile Development Conference was held in Beijing. November, the Nokia China Development Partner Conference was held in Beijing, and the giants in mobile equipment in China. The earth staged a "you sing, I debuted".
With the gradual coming of the wireless Internet era, the market disputes are more fierce. In 2004, Symbian still occupied the dominant position in the mobile operating system market, and most of the remaining market share will be taken away by Microsoft. But Symbian's question is that they put too much attention on high-end phones, and this only occupies a small part of the market. Users who purchase expensive models will not be too much. Most people will choose a relatively simple "enhanced" mobile phone, with color screen, may have a camera, but do not have many very advanced features. Sybian's mistake gave Microsoft's chance, Microsoft certainly won't let, Microsoft's advantage is that it has an abundant fund, and the mobile operating system only accounts for only a small part of its overall business. Sybian and Windows Mobile dispute will be more intense.
At the time of winning, Nokia and Microsoft simultaneously pressed into the mobile developer camp, perhaps in the future, people will choose mobile phones, rich mobile phone software will make them considered a standard, and these application software development must be sent Hope to mobile developers.
Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005 Community Technical Preview providing resources for developers at the MDC conference, allowing developers to see the tools that will be used in the future. This preview version includes Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 capable of starting smart product development. This is the first product that can be delivered in a series of Prebeta Community Technical Preview versions of Visual Studio 2005. It also announced a total bonus up to $ 100,000 Mobile2market competition plan. Nokia announced a new plan, the Nokia Forum Pro. The Nokia Forum Pro is the basic repository for every development partner company in the mobile field, which provides rigorous technologies and business benefits that can accelerate solution development processes, and create huge market opportunities. Nokia Forum Pro will contact its members with a variety of tools, experts and latest information (usually, this information has not been published in other occasions). This helps development partner companies enter the market with lower costs, get a larger market performance opportunity, and all of this is because of the priority and proprietary use of the best support resources for Nokia development partners. right.
Another big man in the mobile field, the king of the PDA era - Palmsource has also rapidly accelerated the market. In 2004, PalmSource launched a series of new software products and development tools, including smartphone operating systems, Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, Smartphone Network Browser Palmsource Web Browser 3.0, and Applications to Palm OS Application Technology PalmSource Installer and Palm OS Development Tool Set Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0. PalmSource claims that they will continue to adhere to the concept of simplifying the application in the wireless / smartphone area. There are partners such as Lenovo, Strong, and Justice and other partners in domestic PalmSource, and PalmSource Powered products are constantly rich. For example, the QDA-700 launched by Pitech has already had a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, and WLAN, three-frequency PGSM (900/1800 / 1900MHz). In order to expand the faster opening of the Chinese market PalmSource, Palmsource, in 2004, has merged a Chinese mobile software company. Through this merger, PalmSource enters the Chinese market and incorporates Linux applications into its own product plan. In 2004, the wireless Internet access became fashion, and the big named Blog on the Internet also entered the wireless field. Google launched mobile blogs in May, mobile blogs, mobile blogs, and the domestic mobile blogs in June. The provider of this service combines the domestic increasing red fire WAP application, not only provides website blog service, but also develops WAP version, so that blogs have a mobile phone function: read the mobile phone WAP, use mobile phone MMS to release the net, use The mobile phone WAP comments on the network, manages and maintains its own network, such as the built-in-deleted classification, delete the server, set the server (public, friends visible, and private), manage your own photo gallery, friend management Wait, the basic functions of the blog have been implemented on WAP. A blog combined with a mobile phone is like a flying wings, so that anyone can play blogs from the mobile phone at any time and anywhere, and the photo mobile phone has broaden the connotation and extension of the network.
In 2004, the mobile economy is one of the highest frequencies in the media. It takes more than one-third of the major websites, and more companies stare at the mobile game. On the Internet, the Internet has given a grand miracle, can the wireless Internet have a promotion of another grand? The author believes that the era of mobile games has not arrived. The main reason is that network speed and mobile operating system standards are not uniform, such as Java video games, JVM is required to provide 3D support, and due to the cost of the current manufacturer, there is no added 3D to JVM. At the same time, the mobile underlying download platform has not yet been made very well, and all types of mobile phones cannot be accommodated. On the contrary, I think next year is a big development of MMS. There will be a lot of SPs to make a lot of money on MMS, and even partially replace the status of SMS.
Conclude
Standard and network speed is the two bottlenecks of the wireless Internet, so Nokia, Microsoft, Palm's competition will be more intense in mobile communication, but regardless of the last outcome, this is an opportunity for mobile software developers.
