[OSM-talk] Series 60 phone recommendations?

[Erik Johansson]

On 7/26/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the light of S80s being a bit lame so far as programming and Nokia
> Symbian phones generally being bloated, can anyone reccomend a decent
> phone.  I'm (supposedly) using the S60 for developing a GPS app, but I
> want a phone for myself that isn't totally over-featured, but does
> support Java (Python a bonus).
>
> Incidentally, does anyone have any info on GPS enabled phones?  I keep
> hearing 6 months, 6 months, 6 months for the last year or so, but I'll
> be damned if I'm going to sign up to a 12 month contract only for GPS
> phones to be released the next day.

Java for mobilphones has a profile for bluetooth called JSR 82[1]. So
if you buy a phone which has support for this you can write an
application to listen to it. I did BT in 2003 and it was pretty easy
to get a working version. Worked great in the emulator, though my
phone lacked support.


[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSR-82