A total of 689 links were tested. The participants included 12 of the industry s leading network operators and web brands, six from the United States and six from Europe, out of which only one participant had zero errors. The Great Equalizer, J2ME Resolving standards and interoperability issues have been problematic for handset manufacturers, carriers and content providers from the word go. Building a simple application for mobile devices is a resource intensive process if you want to ensure that your application can be successfully accessed by all of the various data-enabled wireless devices available to consumers today. These problems have handicapped the growth of the wireless web, and have generally made life miserable for all concerned parties.
Speed is actually quite good, even on the slower machine.
Nokia's simulator was a bit sluggish, but I have seen some complaints of this from pure-PC folk as well. I'd like to see a Mac WAP toolkit too, but for now VPC works fine. What follows is a portion of Mobile Commerce Insights that cuts to the heart of what's really going on the wireless industry. With the amount of news and non-news I receive about mobile commerce and the wireless Internet, I notice a common thread in many of them. As I write this on the eve of the PCIA GlobalXChange in Chicago, I am steeling myself to train my brain to block out the value-add buzzwords that only hide what the exhibiting companies are really trying to say.