Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

T-Mobile is giving away one T-Mobile Dash a day from now to Christmas. Although the registration form on that site asked DOB without HTTPS protection, I still registered because that phone is too appealing to me. Last week I got an Email from someone from rtm.com saying that I won one! I had doubts initially but I checked the terms and realized that RealTime Media sponsored that sweepstakes.

Now I pretty much believe this news is real. My next step is just waiting for some paperworks from them. I can not wait to play with it and compare it with my E61: one Windows Mobile, one Symbian, both are qwerty devices and both support WIFI.

For people who are familiar with EclipseME, MJT installation is very similar.

Some links:
Eclipse DSDP Announces Three Milestone Releases
Doug Gaff: DSDP: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Device Software Development Platform Home: http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp

It’s all about ME:

New Mobile & Embedded Community web site

New Mobile & Embedded Wiki

New Mobile & Embedded Forum

Projects: phoneME, MEapplicationdevelopers and cqME

And open source projects from Motorola

And Java ME Open Source Software List

No, it is not related to Interface21 or Spring Framework. It is from Fox.
Check it out: SpringWidgets

Via ProgrammableWeb.com

The new announced Gmail Java ME client is very nice. I tried it on a few phones and here is a list of notes on Nokia E61.

1. You could get different version if you are using different browsers on E61
Through the “Services” browser (Menu -> Media -> Services) I got the version for E61. Through the Web browser (Menu -> Web) I got the version for Symbian 9. So far I only noticed that the softkeys position is different (switched). Both versions seem working fine.

2. It is not designed for a qwerty device
As Enrique pointed out, this application jumps out of Canvas onto a high-level TextBox to handle user input, which works great on normal phones. But it behaves strangely to an E61 user. Only number keys, star and pound trigger that “jump”. The text input fields do not response to other keys on E61’s full qwerty keypad. On the contact searching text input field, which does not jump to a full screen TextBox, Q, W, E work as expected. But R will give you a “1″. You have to remember “R” is on which number key on a normal phone keypad (is that 7PQRS?).

3. By default, GMail client remembers my login. I do not want to give all my emails away if I lost my phone. Luckily I can disable the auto-signin on a settings screen. By doing that, it will not remember my username anymore. So I have to type it in each time.