Re:Symbian Won
by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:40PM
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There were MIDP profiles[1] as long the version matched, the apps worked fine in my experience on any device although the devices themselves varied in their key pad placements; Nokia went crazy in their phone designs[2]!
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Information_Device_Prof...
Wow, thanks for that video down memory lane.
I had a 3660 (friends called it the "communications brick"). There was no wifi and I couldn't afford a data plan but I was able to have the phone dialup via Bluetooth (think "reverse tether") to my Linux desktop. I never got into J2ME: being a fledgling Linux snob in college, I went for Nokia's C++ target and got stuck in the quagmire.
But MIDP profiles were so limited that you could only build the simplest apps. To do anything complex required calling proprietary extensions, which destroyed portability.
Yeah, the portability on Android is wonderful. /s
What worked on 1 device didn't on another, there was very limited shared UI, and it felt like it was impossible to target multiple devices.