Mobile Applications

From Mobileradicals

In order to facilitate application development, manufacturers and operators are now producing environments where each application is no longer developed for a particular make or model of phone . To this end we are now seeing the wide scale deployment of phones using standard Operating Systems (OS). The two principle systems being: Symbian in Europe, and Binary Runtime Environment of Wireless (BREW) in the United States. Previous to this we have only been able to develop cross platform applications using a cut-down version of Java, the so called Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). Whilst everyone acknowledges the potential of the mobile phone application market the debate still rages as to which of environment is the most advantageous and likely to dominate the market. Many developer forums are still fixated with this debate which has led to reluctance on the part of software developers, currently using Java, to embrace either Symbian or Brew. This is a pity as both systems can complement J2ME in that both the latest versions provide Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 to run over the top of their basic OS, or offer facilities and opportunities beyond those provided J2ME. Other notable devlopment environments that have recently appeared are Python and FlashLite and are particularly suitable for rapid prototyping.

Mobile Football (mfooty)

mfootyis a novel application that provides real-time events from the English Premier League coupled with a Fantasy football game. The events includes goals, red cards, yellow cards, substitutions etc and it runs for a fraction of the cost of SMS services through a optimsed GPRS solution. All the data is provided at a fraction of the cost of the infereior SMS goal alert services and was the first application from the Mobile Radicals taken to full commercial release.