Mobile phone integration

[Sami Ekblad]

Also in enterprise applications the mobile phone integration is important. This would currently clearly separate us from most of the other UI frameworks. However, there are several ways to go:

• Platform dependent integration - Symbian for example makes most use of phones features but limits compatibility.
• Java ME integration - Supported nearly in all phones, but still have differences. Very limited capabilities.
• Browser based integration - Current mobile phone generation have good browsers. Web in phones approach.

Different approaches at server-side:

• Support all components (limited in some way)
• Create separate "mobile component set" (for this see also #112)
• Push/pull features
• Reliable transport layer and push/pull support

Bandwith (symmetric) will propably increase, but latency will be the most issue. This will propably need special solutions for scalability and responsiveness. New wireless techologies (e.g. WiMAX) could be considered as realiable connections, but 3G and roaming networks suffer from limitations.

[Joonas Lehtinen]

The current strategy is to support only phones with proper web-browser. Additional functionality will be implemented in #1277