Archive for November, 2008

BREW Mobile Platform 1.0 with Eclipse

November 06th, 2008 Comments(0)

I did not notice Qualcomm’s new BREW Mobile Platform developer site until today. It is quite a surprise to me that everyone jumps to big version number (Java from 1.5 to 5.0 for instance), Qualcomm decided to move the number backwards from BREW 4.x to BREW MP 1.0. It seems to start all over again.

One very positive move is that Qualcomm now provides Eclipse based plugin in addition to Visual Studio based tools. GNU Compiler tool (MinGW) is officially supported. Before you had to have some hassle to use the GNU tool chain. In the early days I tried GNUDE, then WinARM. It was quite a pain, especially I am not an expert in C/C++ cross compiler settings.

This news seemed to be buried in other hot news in mobile industry such as Android related. Maybe it is because the close platform nature of Qualcomm BREW, there are only very few blogs cover BREW programming topics.

G1 and my other toys

November 06th, 2008 Comments(2)

I got my T-Mobile G1 last week. I took this picture and then found this collection happens to cover a good range of different mobile OSes: Google Android, Windows Mobile Standard Edition, Symbian S60, an old Pocket PC Phone (now Windows Mobile Professional Edition) and Maemo. The last one is not a phone. It is a Garmin Nuvi 350. Gaimin actually is working on a mobile phone - Nuvifone. It seems to be delayed till some time next year.

There are a lot reviews about T-Mobile G1 and I do not want to repeat again here. The GMail push email works very well. Most of the time I receive emails from my phone first, then it appears on the desktop GMail web site. There are decent amount of applications available from Android Market to play with. The only complaint I have at this moment is the battery life. It is significantly shorter than the Nokia E61. I have to charge it everyday for sure.