Qualcomm has announced that it is working to improve its BREW mobile platform. The goal is to make it easier for developers to create BREW apps in 2010. In that sense, the company will be including new components to the mix including Java virtual machine, device management, browser, multimedia, instant messaging, and calendar app to the OS.
Finally, and this is where the real benefits for the developers come in – Qualcomm will make BREW into a unified platform that is not too specific on the handset it runs. As a result, an application developed for one phone will work on other BREW phones as well — in case, of course, the hardware is similar.
The problem, however, is in the question – do we need an improved BREW? Watered-down version of Android or Symbian seems like a better alternative, or at least me thinks so. We’ll see where this goes…
P.S. Just remembered Stefan’s post – HTC will apparently launch BREW-powered handsets next year. Using the improved platform?
[Via: MobileBurn]