Hmm, Android already has Webkit built in. which is basically to Mobile Safari. Which is already better then Opera. Add in the fact that wrappers slow down performance... and you're running something that's NOT a native app.
And you wanna talk Vaporware.. FireFox Mini is vaporware. But i bet it'll do the best it can to emulate Safari Mobile.
The J2ME to Android Java wrapper is probably pretty thin, and I doubt it makes much difference in performance. Also, how is this not a "native" app? Android's API is Java, so a "native" app would be running on the same JVM as this, just using different APIs.
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Duscrom @ Apr 12th 2008 1:03AM
Hmm, Android already has Webkit built in. which is basically to Mobile Safari. Which is already better then Opera. Add in the fact that wrappers slow down performance... and you're running something that's NOT a native app.
And you wanna talk Vaporware.. FireFox Mini is vaporware. But i bet it'll do the best it can to emulate Safari Mobile.
carlo2 @ Apr 12th 2008 2:09AM
no no. I'm saying that Android itself is vaporware. it's ridiculous. all of this hype over yet another linux-based mobile OS. it's just annoying.
and JAVA??? give me a BREAK!
i'm sorry, just a little frustrated.
kev @ Apr 12th 2008 9:27AM
While it's early-stage, I don't think I'd call MiniMo vaporware.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html
The mobile browser space is gonna be a lot of fun, I think
Al @ Apr 13th 2008 4:19PM
The J2ME to Android Java wrapper is probably pretty thin, and I doubt it makes much difference in performance. Also, how is this not a "native" app? Android's API is Java, so a "native" app would be running on the same JVM as this, just using different APIs.