Another view on certification..

[Guest madu]

Just thinking:

Certification is (as it seems) to become a standard thing on mobile devices (and maybe future PDAs too). This seems to be inevitable and the only things that will improve the situation are:

- Market size increase for SmartPhone platform is bound to bring more and more software for it, which should lead to:

- Central certification authority - single cert. standard so phones will accept not only own network certificate, like orangeworld.. Surely software companies will be v. pissed off that they have to get dozens of certificates for just 1 product...

- As software companies get more profit for their main product they will think of freeware apps (as a sweetner) for SP that are certified, say get 5 products successfully positioned in the market and get 1 freeware out to get more attention..

- Someone's gotta crack the bloody thing!! OS, not certificates themself, think that all online banks/outlets use similar certification for secure information exchange - as a guarantee of source - and is considered to be pretty safe/secure. So unlikely developments here..

Afterall they will not be able to keep everything as it is - it will kill the product, reduce potential market size - they are in f***g business, so will start thinking *real* business soon (i hope).. Anyway, just thought I'l put my 2p in (again).... @work&bored

[Guest icornish]

My view is that a vendor with a multi-national application would have to pay gazillions of pounds/euros/dollars to get it certified on each and every possible SmartPhone device.

Example - I look after an application that is used globally. We want to use it on SmartPhone (already have PocketPC). But can't because the certification for each device would cost us about £100 + cost of expertise and any development needed. This is a prohibitive issue for us.

[Guest DJHope]

You said pretty secure, look up "spoofed microsoft certificates" in yahoo and then see how secure they are :D but i agree someone will crack them, maybe also, mobile networks will get scared if linux is running on their networks, its "the hackers choice"!

As far as i can tell though it must be the networks who called for certification, otherwise why would the p800 have it ?