Just read via Balagopal NKnair’s blog the opening of the Nokia Beta Labs.
The latest beta app is a Mobile Server to access your mobile directly via Internet:
Mobile Web Server lets you name your device and make it accessible in the Internet with a browser. The software includes several applications from content creation to remote usage, as well as it enables creating your own applications and content.
That made me even sadder to have bought the N90, with it’s old 2G platform…
Ahmet
Smart idea from Dana Peters, you can get the north in any localization with your mobile phone (J2ME compatible) without using GPS or LBS. Just by using the position of the Sun or the Moon.
By rotating the phone so that the sun and/or moon icons match their location in the sky, the top of the phone will indicate true north.
I really love the fact of using real environment variable to elaborate other way of mobility.
Ahmet
First read over Marco Casario Blog
Great news from 3GSM, Bluestreak Technology announced the future release of their MachBlue™ Mobile.
From there website:
Technical Highlights
Greatly exceeds the graphic capabilities of JAVA, BREW, and other native languages Supports large subset of Flash® 7 and ActionScript 2 Developer-friendly platform allows use of industry-standard Flash® authoring tools in tandem with MachBlue Studio Extensible scripting architecture to launch and control external applications and hardware Supports XML for dynamic data loading and OTA content updates Offers two architectures for maximum flexibility: a single-threaded version for low-end device RTOSs and a multi-threaded version for high-end devices Battery-efficient software design with no compromise between form and function Strong compatibility with existing applications and web-based coding practices Networking support (e.g., HTTP, UDP, WAP push, Bluetooth, IR) Modular code architecture enables fast porting to diverse handset profiles Includes Bluestreak’s APIs for mobile phones and mobile TV: o Call-handling features
o Agenda, contacts, and call log
o Messaging support
o Vibration
o Power usage
o Audio/video streaming and codecs
o Program info
o Video windows
In short that mean that we could easily link the power of J2ME (Java Mobile Edition) with the power of Flash Lite. It will certainly open a incredible number of possibilities for the developers.
I’m just wondering what is waiting Adobe to buy them so they could already create a version Flash Lite 3 compatible.
Ahmet
Telko from J2Mobile has write a post about the fast introduction of GPS in mobile, and also point out the passage from JSR82 to JSR179. But all these news are for J2ME, I hope that Adobe Flash Lite developers will create for us an API for bluetooth/ GPS with Flash Lite 3.0. But I guess there are still plenty of time before FL3.0.
By the way, Flash Lite 2.1 player for Symbian are now available for free (via Alessandro ). It’s an excellent news that finally the player is free (and without IMEI lock), just spread it.
There is a lot of buzz about FoxyTag (free, collaborative system to signal radars (speed camera) on mobile phones. This freeware is develop at The Advanced Systems Group from Geneva University. It’s still in beta version but it works.
A German magazine (der Spiegel) even talk about Solidarity 2.0 to describe it.
This freeware work with a lot of mobile (it’s Java), but need a GPS-Bluetooth hardware.
The idea consists in posting virtual tags close to radars in order to warn other drivers. These users will then get an alarm when they are closer than 15 seconds to a critical point, and a red point locating the radar appears on their screen. You can signal a radar by pressing the key “1″ of your mobile phone and signal that a radar disappeared (you get an alarm but you do not see any speed camera) by pressing “0″. You are also invited to signal radars that are already tagged; by confirming their presence, you create trust link with other users and get more reliable information. The system excludes automatically users that do not vote “like the others”. Roughly speaking, the more you participate, the more the information you get is reliable. FoxyTag is a “collaborative” system. Tags posted by FoxyTag are directional. So, tags posted for users driving in the opposite direction won’t be signalized to you. Fix or mobile speed cameras are treated the same way.
It should work worldwide but some place must be tagless as the tag are human positioned.
If your are lucky enough to have a GPS & a compatible mobile go download it, your wallet will thank you ;)
Ahmet
Interesting post from Munja where he makes a work around about Java Micro Edition most obvious problems.
[…] The force of java was always portability, on the other hand: compile once run everywhere. In the world of desktop java this promise is respected (even if in opinion of some colleagues it is more like: compile once debug everywhere :-) ).[…]
That could be me, and for mobile device it’s even worst: compile as many time as existing device and debug as many time you compile.
Read the complete post from J2Mobile.
Ahmet
J2Mobile is a new blog that was born on last Friday. I’ve made it for the students (and some of the teacher) of the Advanced Systems Object Group from Geneva University (were I’m student). It is not an official blog from Geneva University.
We will mostly talk about J2ME, the Mobile World and obviously from the projects of the group. We should normally be at least 6 writers so don’t forget to bookmark the Rss feed;)
Ahmet
