mobile-phones

How does GPS in a mobile phone work exactly?

I assume it doesn't connect to anything (other than the satelite I guess), is this right? Or it does and has some kind of charge? ...

Building Apps for Motorola Cell Phone

I have an L6 phone from motorola, a usb cable to connect it to my computer, and the Tools for Phones software so I can do things like upload my own custom ringtones or download pictures from the phone's camera. I have some ideas for programs I'd like to run on the phone, and it supports java, but I don't see anything in the software tha...

Logging in J2ME

Hi, What logging solutions exist for j2me? I'm specifically interested in easily excluding logging for "release" version, to have a smaller package & memory footprint. ...

Is it possible to develop for the iPhone without an iPhone?

I know there are emulators, but is this good enough? If someone is serious about iPhone development, do they absolutely need an iPhone? ...

SMS + Web app: Providers of SMS "Long codes" for use by U.S. carrier subscribers within U.S.?

Q.: How to get a cellular phone SMS "Long code" for use by U.S. carrier subscribers within U.S.? Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS, addressing the web app via an SMS "Long code" (VMN or MSISDN). ...

RoR + SMS: Rails web app architecture to send/receive SMS?

Q.: What web app architecture works well receiving/sending SMS text messages? By "architecture, I mean specific architecture, not generally, such as MVC. Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS text me...

Digital Right Management (DRM) forward lock in Windows Mobile

Is it possible to apply DRM forward lock to windows mobile applications? ...

Good simulation software for mobile devices

Can anyone recommend good simulation software for mobile devices? I am most interested in Nokia smart phones. ...

Programmatically get own phone number in iPhone OS

Is there any way to get own phone number by standard APIs from iPhone SDK? ...

Geographical position from Java mobile application?

Is there a way of programmatically determining a rough geographical position of a mobile phone using J2ME application, for example determining the current cell? This question especially applies to non-GPS enabled devices. I am not looking for a set of geographical coordinates, but an ability for a user to define location specific softw...

Mobile Device Javascript/CSS Support. What's out there?

I'm about to begin an ASP.NET application that will be targeted towards iPhones, Blackberries, and Windows Mobile browsers. Aside from the iPhone, I haven't been able to find much information on what technologies these platforms support. Since I'm used to developing for desktop browsers, I like using things like jQuery and advanced CSS ...

Site for mobile phone display

Hi friends, Here i need to create a site that should support all Internet accessible mobiles. May i use javascript, in Some forum they told that javascript doesn't work's in mobile phones. Suggest me clear, In mobile phone javascript work or not ? Thanks ...

WAP Site vs. Traditional HTML for a Mobile Website

If you had some social networking applications and you wanted your users to interact with them using a mobile device would you use WAP or a slimmed down version of your regular website with HTML? My train of thought is that WAP is dead or at least starting to bleed to death because of all the mobile web browsers available ( Iphone, Oper...

SMS Communication Through The Internet

If I am to send a message to a mobile device from a website and viceversa, how can that be done? What I know: A couple of years ago I developed a simple enrollment system on J2ME platform(just for trying J2ME out). I had a mysql database that I setup in a pc/server, and for the communication I used the static IP of that server. I had a ...

What's the Programming Trend in Mobile Phones?

I'm trying to get a grasp of what the software mobile world is made of. What are the operating systems or application layers used by Mobile devices nowadays? Not only PDAs/SmartPhones, bu also regular phones. ...

Java Mobile programming for a beginner, where to start?

After I downloaded the Google Mail and Google Maps application into my mobile phone I got an idea about a service that I want to implement. My problem is that I never did any programming for the mobile platform and I need someone to point me out some resources for the Hello World on a mobile and then something a bit more complicated. L...

SIM Application Toolkit development

Hi, I'm designing a client/server cellular application, and am considering using SIM Application Toolkit for part of it. Where are there good resource to get started with learning the technologies available for SIM cards? I'm more interested in understanding the benefits of existing technologies, their percent of the installed base,...

WAP Push atop FLASH SMS

Hi, I want to send a WAP Push SI, but I want the message to look like an alert - like FLASH SMS. I've tried to make the SMS carrying the WAP data a FLASH SMS, but the it seems the phone can't handle it. I tried it on a Nokia 6230i. Is there something wrong with what I'm doing, or phones in general won't handle WAP over FLASH SMS as I e...

Sending an SMS to a Cellphone using Django

I am building an application, where I have this little survey module, which sends out a simple sms to the phone number I give and has to collect the response(if the user fires it) and show it to me. I am using to django build my project. I have tried django-sms google code project, but I couldn't post messages back from my mobile to my s...

How to get started with Symbian (S60 plattorm)

So at my new job one of the platforms we use is S60 (Nokia phones, Symbian OS) and I am getting curious about it, as well feeling the need to help the team a bit from time to time (I actually work on the server side of things for this software). So any good pointers/recommendations/tutorials and shared experiece that might put me in the...