Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.
This is the first book to hit the English market on this fast-growing wireless technology. It includes an explanation of I-mode: its history, technology, features and services available, and a discussion of how it is being used, followed by a developer's guide to show how to begin building I-Mode applications.
The book also includes some case studies illustrating various implementations, including what has worked and what has not. Readers will gain a very clear picture of both the hardware and software involved with this very successful implementation of a mobile phone-based Internet service, the cultural milieu that it occurred in, and how to develop for I-Mode and the mobile Internet.
Specific coverage includes: exploring handsets, deployment, 3G network plans, packet-switching, CHTML, and programming I-Applis, the I-Mode version of Java.
