Python and phones II

For writing Python Scripts for your phone you need to write the script in a text editor. Useful editors are Pywin or ConTEXT, but also notepad works. To learn how to download and install Python editors on your PC see

1. Python .
2. DiveIntoPython and its first chapter
3. An illustrative article to install Python in here

After installing Python and writing the script you need to save it as *.py. The final stage is testing the code, which I found this link very helpful.

Python and phones I

If your phone is Nokia S60 series then you can simply implement simple applications on your phone using script based programming language, call Python. To start you need to download

1) PythonForS60_1_3_23_3rdEd_selfsigned.SIS

2) PythonScriptShell_1_3_23_3rdEd_selfsigned.SIS

from SourceForge (or their latest edition) to your PC. Then connect your phone either via Nokia PC suite or via Bluetooth to your PC or laptop and transfer these two files to the phone and run these files from the phone. Just make sure you install PythonForS60 before PythonScriptShell. For more information about PyS60 see PyS60 wiki.

A helpful link to learn how to uninstall PyS60 or upgrade it can be found here. Or you can simply join Nokia forum.

Peter Cochrane and GPS

I received this article from a friend today about GPS and road map in the UK. I thought this might be an answer to my early complain about poor GPS service close to London on a N95 mobile. See here for more information.

9G Sony-Ericsson Mobile Walkman

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will launch late Thursday in Berlin six new phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9G bytes of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman. More….

In the other hand IPHONE disappoints mobile developers. To hear more about this click here
third-party software developers to create Web 2.0 applications to run on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone. To read more click here This disappointment gets worse when it comes to programming on real mobile phones, i.e., iPhone is planning to provide facilities to

Wait and see which one will win: Apple or Mobile companies?

Mobile Office

In 2000, Fishkin et. al for the first time introduced the notion of “mobile office”. They argued that for a mobile device, such as a 3Com Palm Pilot, users need to be able to produce new data and view and browse the information space via peripheral devices. However current interface design techniques in handheld devices have been copied from large screen design techniques, e.g., Windows Icon Menu Pointer (WIMP). Thanks to John who has forwarded this link to me Future of Smart Phones we see smart phone programmers have started rethinking about mobile application design to improve current bad interfaces. Then later we should wait for a revolution in mobile phones. Treating a mobile phone like N95 as a mobile office is just impossible now. See my early post.

Excited about N95

As someone recently had a nice! experience with GPS and map browsing on a N95 mobile I would like to share it with you. We were driving from Cardiff to Milton Keynes and on the way I switched on GPS unit and waited the unit to download the satellite data. After 5 minutes the communication was established and there was an almost clear map on the screen with a big red dot on it indicating car’s position. Getting closer to London I was expecting to see more details on the map but suddenly everything on the map disappeared and there only that big red dot on the screen. In summary there was no detailed satellite data for locations around London!

Also, connecting to GPS for about 4 hours killed the battery in less than 5 hours. I was looking in the internet about other people’s experience with N95 and I found this Gizmodo_N95. More review about this gadget: N95 in CNet.

If you have any bad/good experience with N95 why not sharing that with others.

Lets talk about Mobile phones

Not long time ago BBC news spoke to Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia Design about designing mobiles for the world.
Jan Chipchase’s most recent report was called Where’s The Phone?
Mobile phones have shaped global communications. But who shapes mobiles? You can find this interesting article in Designing mobile phones for the world.