Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 19, 2003 Report Posted February 19, 2003 OK, so could go in the developer section, but I think it's of general interest. This SUCKS big time! P AppForge and Sony Ericsson have partnered to enable you to get your applications on the most exciting mobile and wireless converged device on the market. The P800 is a phone and PDA, and handheld computer all in one. The phone is tri-band so it works all over the world. The P800 supports high-speed packet data (GPRS), so you can send and receive e-mail, and view web sites at speeds exceeding 56kb speed (faster than most home dial-up computers). It also has a touch screen, digital camera, MP3 player and supports the Sony memory stick, so you have plenty of memory for all your data. In short, it is the best new enterprise/executive mobile device on the market. And if you are using AppForge MobileVB, you can have your programs running on this device in a few short days. AppForge announced yesterday that Sony Ericsson has licensed Booster (our mobile runtime technology) for their P800, enabling Visual Basic and MobileVB developers to easily develop applications for the Symbian-based P800 smartphone. To view the full press release, visit http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?page=C2_1_53&B=IE To read a more detailed review of this device visit http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/symbian/rb_38x.html
Guest madu Posted February 19, 2003 Report Posted February 19, 2003 hmmm we need one of those *Boosters* on SPV :)
Guest casper508 Posted February 19, 2003 Report Posted February 19, 2003 Borland released something like that last year. A C++ app convertor for the symbian platform. If only there was a smartphone version. Cas
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 I think it's good that stuff like that is being released for mobile phones in general, and lets face it the SPV wouldn't be in that much worse a position if it wasn't for all the certification rubbish as MS provide a free SDK for the SPV... The only real difference is that being able to write VB apps for the phone will mean easier and quicker development for certain apps, and it should open up the development for the platform. Personally I'm waiting for a JVM for the SPV, you can keep your smelly old VB... ;-)
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Oy! Wanna fight? VB is great :) (Except eVB, which is a bit suspect) ;) P
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Heh. Outside now! :wink: Hmmm, that doesn't work so well when you're having a conversation in a virtual environment... It's funny how the different development communities never quite get on... I'll give you VB is good for certain apps, or quick and dirty prototypes but only on the MS platform so for that reason it doesn't rate too highly in my books! VB is to app development what ASP is to Web development, ie: the bottom of the pile :) ~runs for cover~
Guest Kallisti Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 On a processor that is missing so much, VB seems like an unlikely option. It would simply cripple the phone with masses and masses of code for simple tasks. You can both keep your ultra high level languages, I'm happy with C++!
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Surely unless you're working with native assembly language and optimising your code against the manufacturers clock cycles per instruction reference and ensuring you don't stall the processor's pipelines then you're just not hardcore enough?? :-P
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Ah, thanks goodness .net makes the old VB vs C arguments redundant! :) P
Guest Yousaf Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 lol geeks strutting their stuff!
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Don't make me issue you with a formal warning Yousaf :) P
Guest Yousaf Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 *pulls out "teach yourself 6800 assembler in 24 hours" soon no one will mess with me* hehe actually im sure it will be sooooooo easy for MS to incorporate VB functionality in the Smartphone OS! they have just got into a market and are learning! im sure smartphone OS 2003 will rock!
Guest jtsaint Posted February 20, 2003 Report Posted February 20, 2003 Ah, thanks goodness .net makes the old VB vs C arguments redundant! Hmmm really - I take it you dont really understand this then.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 21, 2003 Report Posted February 21, 2003 Er... why? As a professional software developer by day, I would hope I have a good grasp :) P
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