While the Blackberry smart phone is mostly popular in the business world, I've noticed a pretty big trend on campus: mostly everyone has them! If it's not a Blackberry than it's definitely an iPhone, the touch screen phone by Apple that's proven to be one of their biggest mobile competitors.
The mobile war between the two phones might be getting a little bit more heated up after a recent announcement that is sure to affect Adelphi's students.
Research in Motion, the company behind the popular Blackberry smart phone recently announced that it would be developing a Widget platform for their phones. Widgets are applications that look and feel like a regular application. The only difference is that Widgets use browsers and web technology rather than being downloaded. Likewise, this new platform will use the existing Blackberry browser to render these applications.
Now, that doesn't mean too much just yet, but the possibilities are pretty much endless. Think of it like the iPhone. It has applications you download onto the phone, but it also has an amazing amount of web applications ran through its browser. And, that's exactly what RIM seems to be aiming for.
Now all Adelphi students will have to do to get access to crazy chat or video applications is run these widgets. The idea is basically to be able to do everything the Blackberry hardware permits you to do, but a little bit more like the iPhone.
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Closer to the present day, it seems that these ideas have taken form in Cascades and QML.
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