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MOTODEV summit had exciting sessions about mobile application development for motorola mobiles phone. The keynote address, illustrated the current trend in mobile products industry and competitors like Symbian, Windows and Linux. I became familiar with the MOTODEV studio. The sessions which were interesting are WebUI and how to develop application using MOTODEV studio. The MOTODEV studio is an Eclipse based tool. It was clear that mobile applications developed, which use JSR API run on JSR supported mobiles independent of the OS. Java Verified process for geting trusted application certification was new piece of information to me. Using APIs which affects the personal information requires that the application has to be trusted, for the mobile OS to install the application.

A session on location based services illustrated how easy it was to write a Java code to extract the CellID, IMEI number etc. A few such mobile applications are available from their catalog. One can tap the potential of social networking, geographical information.

MOTODEV summit had some their mobile phones displayed in stalls. It was a great summit, fitting audiences from a newbie developer to entreprenuers.

Today i saw how GPS was in action. I used Nokia 6110 Navigator. It has in built map for bangalore. The GPS device takes sometime to get the coordinates from different satellites through line of sight. There is a Time to First Fix (TTFF) factor for each device. In the map software, I just did a search for my destination and the route was calculated. The pointer shows current position and moves according to our motion. Whenever i deviate from the suggested route the map software either warns me or recalculates the new route.

After you have composed a message, press call button or green button.

The message will be sent if the to number is already filled or a prompt will appear to select a to number from your contacts.

Another shortcut, is to send mutimedia files via Bluetooth, IR or MMS just use the green button after opening the picture or video.

Hope You Like this shortcut ! Especially the teens who sent volumes of SMS lol

Please leave comments and other mobile users check the availability of this shortcut.

The concept is about using nanotechnology in mobile phones.

An awesome video demonstrating the Morph Concept can be found here

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

More details can be found here

http://www.nokia.com/A4852062

From my blog statistics i find that there is a good hit for bluespam.So i decided to write an article on bluespam.

I have not used the exact bluespam software, but i trimmed version of the program.I use the modified version to send a file to all the bluetooth devices that have been discovered.The bluetooth devices receive a prompt saying do you want to receive a file from my device.Once accepted the file is sent to the device.Some devices require authentication, so a pairing has to happen before sending the file.The passkey can be made fixed or dynamic.Suppose my device is running without the user, then i have to hard code the passkey into my hcid.conf file.Since its hard coded this particular key has to be publicly distributed.

Further documentation can be found here http://www.mulliner.org/palm/bluespam.php

Refernce Manual

Refernce Manual 2

OBEX protocol intro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBEX

I run a daemon on my box called “obexpushd”.

Now we have some one to listen for bluetooth/other connection on the linux box.To pull the vcards from mobile to my box ijust go to my contacts and mark all and send it through either IR/Bluetooth.

It works on Nokia 6600. http://sourceforge.net/projects/obexpushd

“sdptool” is another CLI tool using which you can know about different services your mobile is capable of.

obexftp is another cool option to hack around.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8960&package_id=62937

http://triq.net/obexftp.html