phoneME Feature
MR1 Feature List page.
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A: phoneME Feature MR2 is the second milestone release of phoneME Feature software
to the open source community. Its features are outlined on the
phoneME
MR2 Feature List page.
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A: phoneME Feature MR3 is the third milestone release of phoneME Feature software
to the open source community. Its features are outlined on the
phoneME
MR3 Software page.
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A: phoneME Feature MR3 software supports development and deployment on the Windows x86
platform, in emulation mode. For more information, see the
phoneME MR3 Software page
and the MR3
Getting Started Guide.
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A: Sun’s commercial products (CLDC HotSpot Implementation 2.1 and
Sun Java Wireless Client 2.1) are built from the phoneME Feature MR3
code base. However, there are some components included in the commercial
code base that are not included in the open source code base because
Sun does not have the necesssary rights to release them to the open
source community. In addition, the licensing terms associated with Sun’s
commercial product differ from those of the open source software. The
phoneME Feature software is licensed under
the
GNU Public License, version 2. Sun’s commercial products are licensed
under a standard Sun commerical license.
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A: Features and capabilities in future releases of phoneME Feature
software will be determined based on market need and will be openly
discussed and debated in the community. Final decisions on what gets
incorporated into the code base will be determined by the Project Owner
or PMC (as appropriate). For more details, please consult
project
management.
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phoneME Advanced Questions
A: phoneME Advanced is a development effort to enable an open source implementation
of the Java ME platform addressing the technical needs of devices in the
advanced phone segment of the market. The phoneME Advanced software is built
around Java ME Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and incorporates implementations
of a variety of key wireless industry standards. phoneME Advanced MR1 software
represents the first milestone release of phoneME Advanced software in open
source.
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A: One of the goals of the phoneME Advanced software is to help ensure that
the application model used predominantly across today's mobile devices,
Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), is available and fully supported
on advanced mobile phones. In addition, the phoneME project strives
to deliver MIDP application compatibility across devices running either
phoneME Advanced or phoneME Feature software.
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A: The CDC architecture is well suited to leverage key high-level OS features
such as memory management, process structure, linking, multi-tasking, etc.
In addition to providing enhanced compatibility to and from implementations
of Java SE technology, the architecture is highly portable and reduces the
integration effort associated with a variety of application environments
and middleware components.
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A: phoneME Advanced software currently supports deployment on ARM, MIPS, and x86-based
Linux devices. For a list of currently supported target hardware and software platforms,
see the phoneME Advanced
Getting Started
Guide.
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Legal Notice
The phoneME project will in FAQ, and other forms of notice on the website,
make clear that open source licensees do not have the right to refer to
any distribution of phoneME as Java, Java ME platform compliant or compatible
unless they license the Java ME TCKs from Sun and test their implementation
and pass the corresponding TCK in accordance with the Java platform compatibility
model.
For more information, see the