Kevin Hendrix is a Senior Software Engineer for the Mobile Device Solutions division of Sybase iAnywhere Solutions. Hendrix has worked in the embedded software industry for 8 years, spanning the IrDA, Bluetooth, and SyncML technologies. He is currently the editor of the OBEX specification for the
IrDA and maintains the Object Exchange profiles (GOEP, OPP, and FTP) for the Bluetooth SIG. Kevin is currently the lead developer for the iAnywhere Data Synchronization products, which are based on the SyncML standards.
As the mobile phone
market matures, operators
and phone vendors are
demanding more
sophisticated software
features from chipset
manufacturers and device
manufacturers. These new
features enhance the
mobile user's experience
but cause two key
problems.