> As someone else mentioned imode was way more popular, at least in Japan. (I happen to have been slightly involved in the relative failure of a rollout in France).
Do you have any info on what the iMode technical stack was like? The information available on the internet (at least in English) is scarce.
Someone somewhere will have a French copy of the tech specs, because Bouygues paid to have the whole lot translated before any work could commence.
One oddity of the Japanese setup was NTT essentially ran a cloud, of a huge pile of HP-UX servers with Oracle/JVM etc. somewhere in Yokohama which was running all the backend. When I said NTT went to big efforts to get companies on board this is what I mean: they were incredibly proactive about getting integrations into this happening, to the point of entirely hosting it on site if necessary and essentially doing the work themselves for anyone they thought valuable enough. I don't believe any version outside Japan ever replicated this, and it was the magic ingredient along with persistent data connections.
The closest thing the west saw to that in practice was the Sidekick, but that never got the level of third party support.
It's fairly widely understood that i-mode used CHTML but I'm unfamiliar with the lower levels of the networking stack. App wise there was Java but not normal J2ME. All I can remember that was unique was their scratchpad memory area (which was just way too big), and billing APIs!
Do you have any info on what the iMode technical stack was like? The information available on the internet (at least in English) is scarce.