The Micro Edition Executive Committee (EC) has voted to approve the Public Review Draft of Mobile Service Architecture for CLDC (JSR 248), but with good comments requesting making the JSR smaller. The voting was as follows:

Voted Yes Did not Vote Abstain
  • IBM
  • Intel Corp.
  • Motorola
  • Nokia Mobile Phones
  • Orange France SA
  • Research In Motion (RIM)
  • Siemens AG
  • Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
  • Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Vodafone Group PLC
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  • Ericsson AB
  • Symbian Ltd
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  • Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
  • NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
  • Philips Electronics UK Ltd
  • Samsung Electronics Corporation
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    This is a very important JSR. When reading their comments, I am happy to see that the majority of the companies realized the importance of sub-setting this JSR, a concern I had expressed before. I am surprised to see Ericsson and Symbian not voting, and Matsushita, NTT DoCoMo, Philips and Samsung abstaining.

    Let's now hope to see the 248 EG accept the comments and subset the JSR. Otherwise:

  • Small manufacturer companies won't be able to afford implementing JSR 248 as is — each TCK cost around $50K (as I understand it) and JSR 248, an umbrella JSR, has 22 JSRs (and thus TCKs) in it –> we are talking about more than a $1,000,000 in TCK fees alone! This will force small manufacturer companies out of the game…
  • Handsets will take to long to ship, due to 248's complexity.
  • Handset's may be too expensive for the “common” users.