dotMobi Database Outlines Mobile Specs

[Jon Westfall]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08...velopers_1.html

"The group that promotes and manages the mobile-phone top-level domain, dotMobi is publishing a list of specifications for virtually all phones on the market in a bid to make life easier for developers. While such lists are available from other companies, this one will be cheaper, making it more accessible to smaller developer companies and individuals, said Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications for dotMobi. Unlike the PC market, where most computers and widely used browsers comply with accepted standards, mobile phones each have different specifications and attributes. Developers must tweak their applications and content for different phones, even those running the same operating systems, so that the content fits onto the phone screen and applications work properly on phones that might not have certain capabilities."

Fees for information such as this are usually high enough to keep hobbyists away, however hopefully dotMobi's planned database will help smaller developers build programs for cell phones they don't have official industry published information about.

[Jon Westfall]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08...velopers_1.html

"The group that promotes and manages the mobile-phone top-level domain, dotMobi is publishing a list of specifications for virtually all phones on the market in a bid to make life easier for developers. While such lists are available from other companies, this one will be cheaper, making it more accessible to smaller developer companies and individuals, said Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications for dotMobi. Unlike the PC market, where most computers and widely used browsers comply with accepted standards, mobile phones each have different specifications and attributes. Developers must tweak their applications and content for different phones, even those running the same operating systems, so that the content fits onto the phone screen and applications work properly on phones that might not have certain capabilities."

Fees for information such as this are usually high enough to keep hobbyists away, however hopefully dotMobi's planned database will help smaller developers build programs for cell phones they don't have official industry published information about.