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Re:Symbian Won by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:40PM (#23642583)
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...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZi-7V11k8

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Re:Symbian Won by Steltek on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:33PM (#23643920)
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.

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Re:Symbian Won by nradov on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:43AM (#23648798)
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.
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Re:Symbian Won by pjmlp on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:17AM (#23649564)
Yeah, the portability on Android is wonderful. /s
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