Nokia To Build Phone With BREW Technology For Verizon

TelecommNOW
May 2, 2003

Nokia will build a mobile phone for Verizon Wireless that will include BREW application download technology from Qualcomm. That Nokia will include BREW technology on one of its handsets is notable for a number of reasons. Nokia has made a major commitment to Sun's Java technology for mobile phones and has included the technology in its Series 60 software platform for high-end handsets. Java and BREW are competing technologies but are not mutually exclusive, and Java applications can run over the BREW platform.