(2004-07-02) Beattie Nokia Python Details

Russell Beattie gives more detail on Python-on-NokIa. Eek, no sockets support yet.

Will the Enterprise really want a Fat Client on a Cell Phone? Wouldn't a WebApp make more sense? And wouldn't screen size kill just about any app that handles more than 3 fields on a screen? Sounds like a PDA with some wireless support (maybe WiFi, maybe something else) would be a better fit...

• Update - Russ definitely disagrees

Semi-related update Jul26 - Russ on Dave Winer's experience at connecting with WiFi vs Cell Phone connections at the Democratic Party national convention. In theory, CDMA technology shares the same bandwidth for both data and voice and thus should scale in this situation very well. If you can get a dial tone, you should be able to connect to the net, right? GPRS (what GSM systems use for wireless data) has only a few available slots which would fill up quickly and thus would probably be saturated and useless. I've had this happen in a crowded mall on my 6600. But CDMA 2000 1x should hopefully be more reliable - especially when using a dedicated cellular networking card. Hmm, that doesn't speak well to GSM/GPRS...