1. Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

2. Computing platform Software frameworks
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)

3. Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

4. Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (Brew MP, Brew, or BREW) is an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones but not in smartphones. It debuted in September 2001.

5. Qualcomm - Software
Operating System - BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) is a proprietary cell phone application platform

6. Smartphones - Origin of the term
In comparison, feature phones more commonly run on proprietary firmware, with third-party software support through platforms such as Java ME or Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW

7. Zeebo - Wireless capabilities
The console uses a Qualcomm Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW mobile gaming chipset similar to that in mobile phones

8. Zeebo - Development
Content for the Zeebo is based on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW platform and is created using the Zeebo Software development kit|SDK, downloadable from the Zeebo Inc. website. Gamepad peripherals are made possible by a BREW extension. The Zeebo system supports OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1. Applications are downloaded wirelessly over-the-air and commonly range in size from 5–25MB.

9. Push - Peek Mail
Peek Inc. has native push mail applications on Android (still in Beta), Mediatek, Spreadtrum, MStar Semiconductor, and Qualcomm Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless. This application works with any mailhost including Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, etc. with support for Microsoft Exchange.

10. Feature phone - Difference between smartphone and feature phone
In comparison, feature phones more commonly run on proprietary firmware, with third-party software support through platforms such as Java ME or Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW

11. HTC Corporation
Founded in 1997, HTC began as an original design manufacturer and original equipment manufacturer, designing and manufacturing devices such as mobile phones, touchscreen phones, and personal digital assistant|PDAs based on Windows Mobile OS and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|Brew MP to market to mobile network operators who were willing to pay a contract manufacturer for customized products

12. Motorola ROKR Z6 - Z6m
Unlike the Z6, the Z6m does not run MotoMAGX, a version of Linux, but instead runs the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless operating system, also known as BREW.

13. Platform (computing) - Software frameworks
* Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)

14. Location-based service - Privacy issues
As a result, there has been a focus on user-centric location-based services and applications which give the user control of the experience, typically by opting in first via a website or mobile interface (such as Text messaging|SMS, mobile Web, and Java (Sun)|Java/Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW applications).

15. UZard Web
It currently supports Windows Mobile (Touchscreen devices only), Windows CE, Symbian OS|Symbian, BlackBerry Research In Motion|(RIM) and Linux. Also it supports Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW, Java (programming language)|Java and WIPI. Its first commercial version was released in Feb in Korea with SK Telecom, KTF, LG Telecom and KT WiBro(WiMAX) which are Wireless carrier|carriers (operators).

16. Vision Mobile Browser
'Vision' (formerly nWeb) is an internet browser platform for mobile devices developed by Novarra Inc. The product consists of a server that acts as a proxy and a small footprint browser that runs on Java Platform, Micro Edition, BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless), or native handset environments via C++.

17. Bing Mobile - Bing for mobile application
The Mobile Application is available as a Java ME application for non-Windows phones, as a richer .NET Framework application for Windows Phones, and as an application for BlackBerry OS, Android (Operating System)|Android, iOS, and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW). It provides local listings, maps (road and aerial satellite), driving directions, and traffic conditions. Other features include:

18. Au (mobile phone company) - Products and services
*'EZappli': Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW applications.

19. UTF-16 - Use in major operating systems and environments
UTF-16 is used by the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|Qualcomm BREW Operating Systems; the .NET Framework|.NET environments; and the Qt (toolkit)|Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit.

20. Novarra Inc. - History
Cellular, easyedge Mobile Browser (retrieved 6 May 2009) marked the launch of the BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) version of its browser platform and the first US mobile operator to allow open internet access on all handsets.Smith, Brad (15 April 2005), “One Tier 2 Carrier Opens the Internet” Wireless Week (retrieved 6 May 2009)

21. Sprint PCS - Partnership with Sun Microsystems
While many CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless and Alltel have chosen to use the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW interface on their phones, Sprint has opted to use the more widespread Java (programming language)|Java interface for their phone's application support. This allows for the use of Third-Party software applications.

22. Handheld game - Multipurpose gaming platforms
All modern cellphones include and run gaming software, usually Java (programming language)|Java or Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) based

23. InuYasha - Video games
Inuyasha has been adapted into a mobile game released for Java (programming language)|Java and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|Brew handsets on June 21, 2005,[ Inuyasha mobile phone game] an English-language original Trading card game created by Score Entertainment that was first released on October 20, 2004

24. Umineko: When They Cry - Release history
Taito Corporation|Taito released a version of Legend of the Golden Witch playable on certain mobile phones on March 31, The game is playable on Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access|FOMA 900 and i703 phones, using Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW as a Run-time system|runtime environment.

25. Qualcomm Brew
'Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless' ('Brew MP', 'Brew', or 'BREW') is an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones but not in smartphones. It debuted in September 2001.

26. Pac-man - Remakes and sequels
Namco has also released Mobile game|mobile versions for Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW, Java (programming language)|Java, and iOS (Apple)|iOS, as well as Palm PDAs and Windows Mobile-based devices

27. Flash Lite - Technical overview
Recent changes to ActionScript allow Flash Lite to better integrate with and even compete with device-layer technologies like Java Platform, Micro Edition|Java ME and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW

28. Flash Lite - History
Flash Lite was initially available on four handset models (Motorola RAZR|Motorola RAZR V3c and V3m, Samsung SCH-a950 and LG The V (VX9800)) as a Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW extension

29. Flash Lite - Versions
** Running on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW platform

30. Flash Lite - Comparison to similar development platforms
Flash Lite is a mobile development platform that can either be used in place of Java Platform, Micro Edition|Java ME or run on top of Java ME in a Flash Lite Player. Other platforms include Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW, Symbian and Windows Mobile. In 2006 Qualcomm announced a partnership with Adobe to bring the Flash Lite player to the BREW runtime.

31. Monkeystone Games - Games
Monkeystone's second in-house title was a puzzler called Congo Cube. They initially developed Congo Cube for Windows, then ported it to the Pocket PC, Java Platform, Micro Edition|Java ME phones, and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW phones.

32. Alltel - Handset and technical specifics
*Phones used the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless interface.

33. RAZR - Verizon Wireless version
These phones also run Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), which signs each application to the phones Electronic Serial Number, or ESN, thus preventing the use of free applications (including Back Up Assistance)

34. A-Train - A-Train EZ
Released by the mobile phone company au (mobile phone company)|au by KDDI on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW platform in January 2006 and distributed by Hudson Soft. Similar to A-Train i in that it is also a Service planning (train)|service planning game. A one-time download fee of 525 applies (incl. tax).

35. Upoc Networks
Upoc was founded in 1999 and has developed mobile community solutions for carriers, consumers, media companies and marketers to communicate via SMS (text messaging), Wireless Application Protocol|WAP (wireless Internet), voice, Multimedia Messaging Service|MMS (multimedia messaging), Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|BREW, Java (programming language)|Java, and other technologies.

36. Zlango
Zlango Ltd., the Israeli company which created and owns Zlango, has released a Java (programming language)|Java and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless|Brew application for mobile phones which uses the Zlango icon language to create a new form of Short message service|SMS, called ZMS, using Zlango's icons instead of words

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