Simon, Quite a few new phones support JSR 179. Some of them don't have built in GPS support, but do support the API. For instance, my Nokia N80 has JSR 179 and works great with an external bluetooth GPS receiver.
Craig Simon Brooke wrote: > Hi, I apologise for the slightly off-topic post, but thought this would > be a good place to ask... > > I'm building location-based stuff; currently I'm using the IBM j9 JVM on > an HP iPAQ 6515 as a development platform, and 'rolling my own' > location code. But I'd like to build my MIDlets so that they are > compatible with JSR179 where available, so what I shall probably do is > build an open source implementation of at least a subset of JSR 179 for > the iPAQ. > > HOWEVER, are there actually devices out there which support JSR 179? If > there aren't (and aren't going to be), then the extra architectural > overhead probably isn't worth it. I've been hunting Nokia's, > Motorola's, Samsung's and Siemen's websites today and so far haven't > found any models either current or announced that support JSR 179 out > of the box. > > Anyone? > > Cheers > > Simon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Eclipseme-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/eclipseme-users
