Feature phones? Yes, they still make them. And they run Wasm! In this WasmAssembly podcast, Thomas Steiner hosts Thomas Barrasso from CloudMosa to talk about the Cloud Phone platform and what it takes to run WebAssembly on tiny feature phones by streaming Web apps from a remote server that runs Chromium.
Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
00:06 – Smartphones, dumb phones, and feature phones
02:19 – CloudMosa’s Cloud Phone platform
5:49 – asm.js and Wasm on KaiOS feature phones
8:38 – Streaming Chromium onto feature phones
12:33 – Streamed Chromium vs. Puffin browser
15:09 – Testing a Wasm app on Cloud Phone
17:14 – Cloud Phone’s technical architecture, including Wasm
20:44 – Development paradigm shift
25:01- Actual Wasm use cases
27:48 – The JavaScript minification pitfall for asm.js
30:31- Wasm-based encryption and decryption in Telegram
34:29 – WhatsApp on Cloud Phone?
36:47 – Canvas-rendered Wasm apps
39:41- Wasm abuse cases
42:04 – Puffin Cloud and WebAssembly
45:01 – Your first Wasm app on Cloud Phone
48:28 – DWARF debugging on Cloud Phone?
49:56 – Wasm, but not
Resources:
Thomas Barrasso on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3Fxbvwg
CloudMosa (Puffin) → https://goo.gle/42bNe7M
Cloud Phone → https://goo.gle/4c0xfwB
Building web apps for Cloud Phone → https://goo.gle/4bz1Pxn
Cloud Phone simulator → https://goo.gle/4c0fRYZ
KaiOS → https://goo.gle/4kx6C6z
Puffin Cloud Isolation → https://goo.gle/4bFMxqK
Telegram client for KaiOS → https://goo.gle/3DRL581
Wasm implementation of algorithms used in Telegram → https://goo.gle/43PTDH1
Stolen Focus book → https://goo.gle/43PTDH1
Reach out → https://goo.gle/4bY9BRs
Thomas’ email: [email protected]
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Speaker: Thomas Steiner
Products Mentioned: Web Assembly (Wasm), Chrome, WebAssembly for Chrome