Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain.

Processing has a mobile version, which is a programming environment and library for writing software (MIDlet) for mobile phones. It provides a rich set of APIs. With Wireless Toolkit it can generate JAD/JAR files. Pretty cool.

smartFeed is a free podcast client for Windows Mobile devices, including smartphones and PocketPCs.

From rawsocket.org

As a summary:

Series 40 3rd edition: new screen size (240×320), MMAPI camera access, FileConnection and PIM (JSR 75), SVG (JSR 226), Location API (JSR 179)

S60 3rd edition: new screen size (352×416, 320×240), MMAPI supports streaming via RTSP, M3G (JSR 184), SATSA (JSR 177), Web Services (JSR 172), WMAPI 2.0 (JSR 205) MMS support, Bluetooth (JSR 82) OBEX and PushRegistry support, SIP (JSR 180), FileConnection and PIM (JSR 75), SVG (JSR 226), Location API (JSR 179)

I am not sure Series 60 rebranding to S60 is a good idea:

(1) Why only change the name Series 60 to S60, but Series 40 and Series 80 remain unchanged?
(2) S60 seems to confuse the platform name and phone model names from Nokia. Think about this simple statement: Nokia N91 is a S60 phone.

Symbian OS v9.1, S60 3rd edition phones:
Nokia N Series: N71, N80, N91, N92
Nokia E Series: E60, E61, E70
(Notes: N70, N90 are Symbian OS v8.1 and S60 2rd edition phones)

Series 40 3rd edition phones:
Nokia 6111, 6270, 6280, …

I was trying to find good/detailed information about Motorola SCREEN3 but did not find any.

Quotes from MobileWhack:

SCREEN3 is an end to end content management solution for managing server content and connected mobile clients. With SCREEN3, content can be categorized into channels and then delivered to subscribers via their mobile devices. The data automatically appears along a ticker like display on their mobile device’s home screen. Users do not have to click on any button or launch any application to retrieve content.

You can find a lot of user scenarios for this “push” technology, from news, mobile ads to field force automation applications. Cingular offers SCREEN3 on Motorola V557. New phones from Motorola like RAZR V3x and V1150 support it too. At this moment it is not clear if Motorola will open this channel to developers or just reserve it for carriers.

By the way, is there anyone wearing SPOT Watch?

Convert It is an application for Windows Mobile Smartphones. It supports four types of conversions: currency, measures, temperature and stock quotes. It is a nice application if you want to use it on your phone or learn some XML and Web Services of .NET CF:

The whole application is configured using XML - almost nothing has been hard coded in to the application … and all setting can be configured by editing the applications XML files.

It also calls two Web Services, one for “Currency Rates” and the other for “Stock Quotes” - both services are provided by http://www.webservicex.net, and the results of this web services calls are saved locally for offline conversions.

As most of the mobile applications I introduced on my blog, the source code of Convert It is available for download.