Let's have a scary use case scenario of putting a linux mobile app into
linux mobile phone:

1. Unlike J2ME, A Linux mobile app is native to the Linux mobile device.
Therefore it could access native resources like phonebook, power
management, time, calendar, bluetooth, sms, telephony etc.

      
but J2ME must run on a host OS, AFAIK. it runs in its own runtime
environment which is just another process in the operating system.
    

 true, and this is where the first level of security in J2ME happens.

correct. and the speed?



2. If someone has an OTA(over-the-air)hosting for Linux mobile apps that
operates the same way as www.midlet.org. Someone could develop a
malicious linux mobile app that pretends to be a game or a serious
application but underneath it's accessing your phonebook sending some
"F&#* YOU" messages to your associates while you are brandishing your
cool phone in public. Nobody wants that to happen. 
      


can't we do this on a nokitel phone?

for  me, A760 is better than the MS powered mobile phone
on which on can encounter BSOD (yes they did),
Outlook email viruses, IE Crashes, etc. (still, its cool!!!)

imagine if you can customize your own app on A670...
possibilities are endless.....




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