Openwave Systems Inc. the “leading independent provider of open software products and services for the mobile communications industry”, today announced the availability of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7 (V7) for Linux at the DEMOmobile 2003 conference.
Openwave Announces Phone Suite V7 for Linux-based Phones
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<offtopic, I know> I am quite impressed at how carefully OSNews is following the mobile software business. It has been for a long time already.
Excellent job.
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We have a site to do that: http://www.NewMobileComputing.com (or nmcx.com for shorter)
Am i correctly in believing that openwave makes its money selling phone browsers and optimized software (and perhaps servers) to run WAP-like content.
That seems to address the desire of operators to have specialized and controlled content. I wonder how long that will go on. At what point will operators just embrace the real internet with browsers like the opera phone browser that let phone users see the real web in a tiny form factor.
Ryan, you are left really in 1999.
The OpenWave browsers 6.x and above do exactly that: let you see the “real” web and access whatever you want.
OSNews renders greatly on Openwave’s UP browser 6.x and above for example!
The three (smaller in the under $300 mobile phone marketshare) competitors to Openwave, AU/Obigo, Nokia and NetFront, also support the real web and render greatly OSNews. (I tested with AU, netfront and UP, but not with Nokia though)
That is good to hear, that you can access the real web. With sprint, my carrier, you can only access real web content if you purchase a high-end “smart-phone” or PDA. If you use a regular phone you can not. you must access the cached stuff.
I don’t know where you’ve seen that. With the sprint PCS Vision service, there are no restrictions that I’m aware of on the sites you can access, and phones start at $80 (we’re not in the smartphone/PDA realm here). Just make SURE your phone does have Openwave’s browser version 6.x and above. Previous versions could only do WAP.
It depends on how your particular cell phone model was set up. If your phone is stuck on their home page, there are very simple ways of bypassing it.
Go to sprintusers.com or http://www.howardforums.com to find out how to do it.
I guess it must have been an older phone with an older browser that i was checking out then. In that case i might give vision another chance. I had no desire to carry a PDA around with me as my phone.
Eugenia, Sam:
Forgot to thank you for the info. thank you.
ryan: if you’re interested in web browsing on a vision phone I suggest that you try the LG 5350 (if you can find it), it has an Openwave Mobile Browser V6.1 that will let you go to any URL and does a decent job rendering reasonably simple HTML markup (OSnews renders great) and still have excellent support for WAP content (yes, that’s important as well, it’s not pretty, but it’s there and it’s usable).
I said “try”, not buy; when buying a cell phone it’s often a good idea to wait until late spring or late fall, many new models are released around those timeframes.