Brew 2003
QUALCOMM | Press Room | Press Releases. Steve asked me what's up with Brew. We know quite a bit about it, but it is fortunate, the Brew conference just ended. Here is their press release.
Main factoids:
* 28 million individual BREW-based application downloads - with more than 3 million downloads occurring in March 2003
* 8 million BREW-enabled handsets in the market
50 BREW-enabled handset models in the market
* 7 network operators on 4 continents with commercial BREW-based service - Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, China Unicom, Vivo (the joint venture between Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom) in Brazil and Telstra in Australia.
Other useful links:
* "Overview":http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/developer/resources/gs/glance.html. Here is a quick overview of the system. Not many changes from last year.
* "Devices":http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/developer/resources/ad/brew_devices.html. Current device support
* "Testing":http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/developer/resources/bd/ext_test.html. Main change this year is rather than just pass and fail, ther eis now a "passed with notes" status which means, that there are non user impact bugs. They are tyring to streamline I think. They have tiers of testing based on what APIs are called based on whether the applications calls the network, makes a phone call via TAPI or does both.
* "Pricing":http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/developer/developing/docs/brewpricingoptions.pdf. They didn't change this much. They still don't have metered pricing, but there are hacks around it in the document. Note that with BREW, the business relationship is directly between Qualcomm and BREW for their fee.
* BREW APIs. I didn't get a chance to look at this too throughly. Two things I did note have changed. First, ISVs can write extensions to BREW so that they can themselves be libraries called by other Brew applications. These library developers can even charge others for using their stuff. They also have basic IP and Telephone APIs now.
Posted by rich at April 30, 2003 11:22 PM
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