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List:       openmoko-community
Subject:    Fwd: tomtom on the Neo1973
From:       ian () darwinsys ! com (Ian Darwin)
Date:       2007-05-30 16:51:37
Message-ID: 465D8EC2.8050603 () darwinsys ! com
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> A simple app to add data for the OpenStreetMap project on OpenMoko
> will probably help a lot.

Absolutely. And I'm sure several of these will come into being.

If you want reuse, however, you should think about writing it in Java.
Believe that there will be good Java ME implementations for OpenMoko.
The coverage on modern cell phones and smart phones for Java is maybe 80 
or 90%. The coverage of GTK+ is pretty close to zero (though obviously 
OpenMoko will change this!). If you write in Java you can have one code 
base that runs on most phones AND most Blackberries AND Treo AND 
(someday soon) OpenMoko. and so on. Not all of which have GPS anyway, 
but you get the idea.

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