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Title: I-Mode: A Primer by Nik Frengle ISBN: 0-7645-4884-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely worth a read
Comment: Excellent insight into a topic and technology that seems likely to become prevalent on a global scale in the very near future.
Whilst my interest in buying this book and researching i-mode is more from a business rather than technical perspective, both angles seem to have been covered equally well. I appreciated Frengle's well thought through and clearly outlined discussions on a broad variety of topics relating to i-mode and the mobile industry in Japan. The text was very useful in clarifying a number of questions I had and overall I felt the contents in the book was easily accessible and user friendly.
It's definitely worth a read for anyone interested in the mobile industry in Japan or i-mode in general.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very readable.
Comment: I was developing Java apps for i-mode phones in under 4 hours. That was after reading 2 chapters. The rest of the book was a bonus read. The text is a bit outdated w.r.t. European WAP phones, he doesn't seem to realise we have long battery lifes too, WAP on gprs to boot! That's not going to stop me giving it 5 stars. One of the downloads you really need is no longer at the link published in the book. I sent an e-mail to the author late one night pointing this out. When I woke and checked my mail he had answered and I could get what I needed.
This book was worth it as a "get started with i-mode development" and was interesting as a "how they made wireless internet economically viable".
Rating: 5
Summary: THE book on i-mode
Comment: Frengle definitely hits the nail on the head in this book: He tells us all we need to know about the i-mode business model, the i-mode content business, and i-mode's history. Calling this book a 'primer' is apt--it gives us the basic information we need to understand i-mode. But Frengle goes further, in the technical sections, telling us how to program i-mode Java programs, design data driven i-mode applications, and even simple things like how to get sounds on to an i-mode phone, and how to optimize graphics for use on i-mode.
Frengle knows his stuff, working in this field, it says on the back cover, in Tokyo. That definitely matters to me, and is more than can be said for the author of the other book (i-mode Crash Course) that I read about i-mode.
Great job! So, now that we have this excellent book, when do we actually get i-mode in Boston? AT&T Wireless will get the same five stars from me when they do that!
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Title: i-Mode Developer's Guide by Paul Wallace, Andrea Hoffmann, Daniel Scuka, Zev Blut, Kyle Barrow ISBN: 0672321882 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: i-mode Crash Course by John R. Vacca ISBN: 0071381872 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 25 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Wireless Horizon by Dan Steinbock ISBN: 0814407145 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Micro Java(TM) Game Development by David Fox, Roman Verhovsek ISBN: 0672323427 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 18 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: i-mode Strategy by Takeshi Natsuno ISBN: 0470851015 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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