NO Java on LG Phones

[mrmonteith]

Response to question about Java applications outside of using Brew.

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-----------Reply to Customer Enquiry------------
Thank you for inquiring of LG Electronics. Your e-mail has been received. None of our handsets directly support java applications. For further assistance with your request, you will need to contact your service provider. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions or concerns. Thank you again for contacting LG Electronics.
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For those that don't know. Brew is made by Qualcomm. Although it has
advantages here is what you buy into. To develop you have to spend quite
a bit of money for their compiler, fees for being a developer, fees to test your
application against other phones, fees for making your application available to others, and fees when they do buy the application.

Whereas lots of phones outside of LG supported using Java. Java as you've seen on many web sites, corporations writing applications for all sorts of things. Java is very inexpensive to develop and deploy. In many cases you don't need third-party companies or cell phone providers to store your programs to make them available to people.

People need to let Verizon know that you open up the world to more possibilities if you don't limit who can write and develop applications for a phone to just BREW. Sounds like another Microsoft or remember the original IBM PCs that tried to be proprietary. People got sick of it and clones came out and blew them out of the industry as far as personal computers.

Needless to say I'm not paying the exhorbitant amount of money to load those things on my phone. Maybe they're figure out people aren't going to buy into it. I'd say give everyone a choice to do either on the phone. Let's see which one comes out on top.

Michael

[Critic]

Java isn't supported on any phone sold by VZW. The BREW environment is in place specifically because VZW wants you to pay them to run any sort of gaming/entertainment application. It's yet another thumb in the cracked dam that is 'revenue leak', and it's the same reason VZW disables the OBEX Bluetooth profiles and ringer transfer from memory cards.

And don't for one second think Cingular isn't thinking of ways to do the exact same thing...

[Fathead]

Brew is big money making conspiracy.



That being said, if you don't like it then the only way to change it is with your wallet.

[mcf04581]

"And don't for one second think Cingular isn't thinking of ways to do the exact same thing..."

Im so glad you brought this up Critic. I cant wait until other carriers catch up and begin to start doing some of the same things as VZW. I know its not the best thing for customers, but it is for the carriers. If carriers dont continue to bring out products and services to drive revenue, the time line for better rates, better services, and new technologies is going to take longer than nessassary. Just my two cents.