mobile-phones

Where I can find the USSD commands specification?

I need to implement a simple application to send short notify messages on gsm phone display via a GSM modem. I know that I can use the gsm USSD protocol to send messages instead of sms in order to speed up the delivery. Where I can find a detailed reference on the available USSD messages? Where I can find examples or sample applicati...

What's the best framework for mobile phone apps in C And what's the best simulator for various mobile phones out there?

I'm just getting started with this field, so any information is appreciated! ...

Get Mobile Phone OS over Bluetooth

Is it possible to check over Bluetooth if Android is running on a mobile phone? ...

Android Development Device

I'm looking to get a device (phone, tablet, etc.) for developing Android applications. I know I can use the emulator to get me started, but I feel like that will only get me so far along. I'm looking for something reasonably priced, and I don't want a phone contract, data plan, etc. Anyone have any suggestions? ...

What kind of cost does Symbian require?

Quoted from this answer: Cost of tools: JavaME would be cheapest, followed by Symbian, Android then iPhone. I want to get started with mobile phone programing,but I don't see where Symbian does cost, as its SDK is available for free. Anyone knows? BTW,many people say Symbian only supports Symbian C++, but after reading its do...

Auto screen rotation in windows 7 mobile

We have developed a application for HTC HD2 mobile, which has windows 7 CE. I have designed application to work for both the orientation (portrait, landscape) Now I wanted to achieve auto screen rotation (portrait to landscape and landscape to portrait) according to the device movement (some thing like iPhone). Can i ...

How to properly display videos on mobile devices?

This is a 2 part question: What is the best way to display video on mobile devices? For example if I send via SMS a URL to a video... what is the proper way to do it? Should the URL have some sort of script (question #2) to detect which device is requesting the video and then deliver the right format? If my #1 assumption is correct, w...

Isolated storage location for windows phone 7?

Hi, I'm building a windows phone 7 application using silverlight 4. I store my data in Isolated storage as outlined here. The program runs with no errors. My question is where I can see the file I have saved? Is it possible to find the file in the windows phone 7 emulator? Thanks in advance. ...

Phone Application For .Net

Hello guys, As a .net developer mainly c#, I want to know what would be the best approach for me to develop Phone application that runs on major phones. Just to let you know Iphone is out of the question because of the costs that are involved, not ready to buy Mac book. I want something I can develop within Windows operating system...

Support SVG on mobile platforms

Which mobile platform browser fully supports SVG? Interested JS + Raphaël + touchscreen ...

Development Applications on big devices vs mobile phones: Similarities/Disimilarities

Hello, I saw a news document on applications running in mobile devices. And, I believe that might be interesting for people where I live (Internet is not developed - but the cellphone networks are much better). So here are my questions: Where can I find documentation for beginners on that matter (And most importantly) Am I gonna be ...

Good mobile oriented GWT widget library alternatives

I've been developing a travel planning site - tripgrep.com - which is built on appengine, GWT and smartgwt, among other technologies. It is still early days, and the site is now working well on my development environment, which is either a windows or mac computer. However, I am frequently talking up the website to my friends when we...

J2ME app to access incoming call - Where to start?

Here's my requirement: I often receive calls from unidentified numbers on my mobile phones. I would like an application which would use a reference list like this, and show me the carrier name and the area of origin along with the number on screen. Mobile make : Sony Ericsson Model : C902 Operating System: Propreitary J2ME: MIDP 2...

how to calculate power consumption on an Android mobile that uses wifi?

Hello, I have implemented a routing protocol on an Android 1.6 mobile that uses wireless (ad-hoc) network in order to exchange messages. Now I would like to evaluate it under an energy consumption point of view, the base would be to try to calculate the energy wasted to transmit a single packet, do anybody has any idea how to do that? So...

Sending confirmation SMS automatically

I hope this gets a response. Say Person A sends an SMS to a shortcode in a certain syntax. How could a confirmation SMS be sent to Person A's mobile phone automatically ("Your message has been received successfully!"), after determining that the SMS received from Person A is in the correct syntax? I'm a total newbie when it comes to SMS...

Nokia N95: External JS and Ajax?

Hey all! Developing a mobile site on the side. Our target audiences include Android operating systems, iPhone OS (now iOS), WebOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry (Curve, Tour, Bold), and the Nokia N95. Pretty much all of these devices save for the Blackberry Curve have Ajax support. The Nokia N95, however, has Ajax support, but I'm having ...

Testing Mobile Sites

We are getting ready to launch a mobile site and are wondering what the best way of testing across as many mobile browsers as possible would be? This could be a company that does this sort of thing, or a way in which to do it in-house, we're not being picky. ...

How's ActionScript 3.0 supported on symbian,android,iphone and windowCE?

Anyone knows? To deal with all the things you can do with FMS3, you have two additional language Application Program Interfaces (APIs). Both APIs are extensions of ActionScript and are called Client-Side Media ActionScript and Server-Side Media ActionScript, or in this book, simply as CS ActionScript and SS ActionScri...

How to port real time video service by FMS from PC to mobile phone(symbian,android,iphone)?

Now I've set up the flash application to work in to stage: the uploading stage: uploading the stream from pc A's camera to FMS play stage: watch the real time stream from PC B's browser I want to make stage 2 work on mobile phones too. But currently it's using flash(actionscript) to connect and play the stream, which is not supporte...

Does html5 video support flv out of the box on mobile phones(symbian,android,iphone)?

The purpose is to support playing flv without requiring client side script like actionscript. Anyone knows? ...