Srivaths, I am familiar, although uneducated, with this initiative. I posted the following to the Unwired Planet thread in the middle of the SEA crisis.
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Dissappointedly, it got lost in the shuffle. Qualcomm is working with Unwired Planet. My posting refers to a Nortel-Cellnet innitiative to take a different approach. The interesting part of the posting is:
" Nortel's approach is not simply to port the Web onto a handheld. Terrett says the Web's largely text-led approach amounts to providing a new computer that relies on old-style command-line user interface. For this reason, he believes the Wireless Application Protocol, an effort by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and US browser maker Unwired Planet to design a way of translating the HTML code which makes up Web pages so they can appear on small-screen portable machines, is doomed to failure - even though instant access to the billions of bytes of existing Web data, without having to rework them for a new medium - must have its attractions."
Given the Q's strategic relationship with Nortel, it looks like they could be playing both sides of the fence. However, IMO, this is out of character. |
