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Published on: 12/31/2004
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Aaron Bernstein, Senior Project Manager, BREW Developer Relations with Qualcomm Internet Services, and one of the speakers at the event, notes that about 127 million mobile subscribers globally make calls and send text messages on mobile networks based on CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), a standard created by Qualcomm.More significantly, emerging third-generation (3G) networks the world over will be based on variants of CDMA, including W-CDMA in Europe and Japan, as well as cdma2000 1X, 1X-EV-DV, 1X EV-DO, and cdma2000 3X in other parts of the world.
The GSM market, without a doubt, will continue to represent a fertile revenue stream for mobile application developers, but companies interested in newer, more powerful networks capable of supporting more powerful applications should look to CDMA.
At the event, Bernstein, along with Dublin-based Upstart Games managing director Barry O'Neill, painted a vibrant picture of the CDMA mobile applications market today and in the future.
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Indeed BREW is regarded as the gateway for any application developer looking to gain a foothold in the existing CDMA market, and according to Bernstein, the platform will be an equally important gateway for developers looking forward to wide scale deployment of 3G in Europe, the Americas or Asia.He also argues that application developers accustomed to working with the J2ME (Java 2 Platform Micro Edition) platform -- which is typically associated with GSM/GPRS in the same way that BREW is seen as a CDMA technology -- would also benefit by sharpening-up their understanding of BREW.
if you are writing in Java for the GSM market, you can also write in Java for BREW phones on CDMA
Aaron Bernstein, Qualcomm
"The fact is, BREW does not need to run on a CDMA or Qualcomm chipset.BREW is radio frequency agnostic...We have designed this as an open technology, so it can run on any phone," Bernstein commented."Since BREW, on the client, sits between the application itself and the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) level software, it can support applications written in Java (J2ME), or C, or C++."
"In other words," Bernstein explained, "if you are writing in Java for the GSM market, you can also write in Java for BREW phones on CDMA."