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I just splurged on a Motorola V600 phone, after years and years of always having the cheapest cell phone (usually free) I could get. I always figured 'what the heck, I don't make many calls, why do I need an expensive phone?'. So, the v600 is a nice phone. Camera, some micro-office style apps, WAP browser, bluetooth, etc... It makes phone calls too, of course ;) However, it also houses a J2ME runtime (Java 2 Micro Edition). 'Neat', I thought. But it gets better: I stumbled onto Motocoders.com. After a simple signup, I downloaded Motorola's custom J2ME SDK for this series of phones. It includes a device emulator that emulates most of their J2ME-enabled phones for development. So now, I'm trying to think what I'm going to build for my phone. Their SDK allows access to everything in the phone - UI library, Sockets (UDP only), Bluetooth, HTTP/HTTPS, etc. This is really cool - I had no idea it was this simple! Has anybody else been bitten by the custom phone-app bug? -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
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I just splurged on a Motorola V600 phone, after years and years of always having the cheapest cell phone (usually free) I could get. I always figured 'what the heck, I don't make many calls, why do I need an expensive phone?'. So, the v600 is a nice phone. Camera, some micro-office style apps, WAP browser, bluetooth, etc... It makes phone calls too, of course ;) However, it also houses a J2ME runtime (Java 2 Micro Edition). 'Neat', I thought. But it gets better: I stumbled onto Motocoders.com. After a simple signup, I downloaded Motorola's custom J2ME SDK for this series of phones. It includes a device emulator that emulates most of their J2ME-enabled phones for development. So now, I'm trying to think what I'm going to build for my phone. Their SDK allows access to everything in the phone - UI library, Sockets (UDP only), Bluetooth, HTTP/HTTPS, etc. This is really cool - I had no idea it was this simple! Has anybody else been bitten by the custom phone-app bug? -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
Yeah, Symbian UIQ for me :-)
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I just splurged on a Motorola V600 phone, after years and years of always having the cheapest cell phone (usually free) I could get. I always figured 'what the heck, I don't make many calls, why do I need an expensive phone?'. So, the v600 is a nice phone. Camera, some micro-office style apps, WAP browser, bluetooth, etc... It makes phone calls too, of course ;) However, it also houses a J2ME runtime (Java 2 Micro Edition). 'Neat', I thought. But it gets better: I stumbled onto Motocoders.com. After a simple signup, I downloaded Motorola's custom J2ME SDK for this series of phones. It includes a device emulator that emulates most of their J2ME-enabled phones for development. So now, I'm trying to think what I'm going to build for my phone. Their SDK allows access to everything in the phone - UI library, Sockets (UDP only), Bluetooth, HTTP/HTTPS, etc. This is really cool - I had no idea it was this simple! Has anybody else been bitten by the custom phone-app bug? -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
Not the phone bug, but the PDA one. I was starting to get into Palm programming and was diverted to something else. Also, a friend of mine told me to look into Qualcomm's BREW SDK, which I haven't had time to do. "For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog
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I just splurged on a Motorola V600 phone, after years and years of always having the cheapest cell phone (usually free) I could get. I always figured 'what the heck, I don't make many calls, why do I need an expensive phone?'. So, the v600 is a nice phone. Camera, some micro-office style apps, WAP browser, bluetooth, etc... It makes phone calls too, of course ;) However, it also houses a J2ME runtime (Java 2 Micro Edition). 'Neat', I thought. But it gets better: I stumbled onto Motocoders.com. After a simple signup, I downloaded Motorola's custom J2ME SDK for this series of phones. It includes a device emulator that emulates most of their J2ME-enabled phones for development. So now, I'm trying to think what I'm going to build for my phone. Their SDK allows access to everything in the phone - UI library, Sockets (UDP only), Bluetooth, HTTP/HTTPS, etc. This is really cool - I had no idea it was this simple! Has anybody else been bitten by the custom phone-app bug? -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
Oooh, ooh. I have the V600 and I have a request, if I may; It is a great phone but instead of letting each app have free reign over the available space it partitions it off and only lets an app fill up it's segment, as far as I can tell. e.g. I keep hitting the 100 or so SMS limit but on checking the phones memory it says I still have 5Mb free. I don't have much need for the voice, audio and image apps but I want to be able to store more SMSs. So if you can figure out how to manipulate that setting via the SDK I will be very grateful. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project
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Oooh, ooh. I have the V600 and I have a request, if I may; It is a great phone but instead of letting each app have free reign over the available space it partitions it off and only lets an app fill up it's segment, as far as I can tell. e.g. I keep hitting the 100 or so SMS limit but on checking the phones memory it says I still have 5Mb free. I don't have much need for the voice, audio and image apps but I want to be able to store more SMSs. So if you can figure out how to manipulate that setting via the SDK I will be very grateful. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project
That's so annoying. That happens on every phone I've had unfortunately, and I have no idea why. My current Samsung phone has 21mb memory and can store only 200 messages regardless of where else I free space. It's the same with the phonebook, why do they have to give the phonebook a fixed size when the phone has so much memroy? -- Andrew.