OpenWAP.org has a useful list of open source phone apps; there’s an RSS reader and a Google Maps viewer which I shall be trying out soon, in addition to the gmail client that I’ve already mentioned. Coolness. Phone becomes a mobile internet platform. Yay!
Anyone know how I can back up my K700i once I’ve got all this cool stuff installed on it?
Update: Oh my God, the Google Maps viewer is the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. I am not kidding. It does UK maps as well. Wow. Just, wow. I will never, ever be lost again. Wow. It’s brilliant. Download it and run it on your phone. Really.
Update 2: And an IRC client. Wow. My phone suddenly feels like a real platform.
Is it any good?
Posted by Tom on May 10th, 2005.
I’d love to share your enthusiasm but then I just think of the extortionate charges for GPRS.
Posted by Matt on May 10th, 2005.
Not that extortionate. I pay something like four quid a month on my bill, and that gives me 10MB or so to download. Text-based protocols are pretty light on bandwidth—the Google Maps thing isn’t, I admit, but it’s so cool—and so it’s not that bad, I don’t think. As long as you’re not planning on watching streaming movies or something it should be OK.
Posted by sil on May 10th, 2005.
I also like Jimm (ICQ client, if anybody as a working Jabber client please let me know ) and MidpSSH .
Posted by Michele on May 11th, 2005.
thanks for the link, if you run across any more good open source apps please submit them to openwap.org
Regards!
Posted by Shawn on May 20th, 2005.
[...] So we headed onward. Sam had had recommendations for somewhere called Shanghai Fusion, on Salop Street in Dudley. Out to Dudley headed the three brave explorers. Now, we didn’t know where Salop Street was, but we intended to try the time-honoured “drive around until you find it” location technique, what with Dudley not being all that big. Turns out it’s big enough to defeat us, though, and after my griping about how my car has sat-nav (we were in Sam’s) reached enough of a pitch, my lovely wife pointed out that I constantly boast about (and consequently have to pay for) my phone having a net connection; couldn’t I just go and get a map? Well, I have the Mobile GMaps Java app on my phone for just such an eventuality, so I fired it up. I’d looked at it before, at which point I was a bit over-effusive about the wonderfulness of being able to see a map on your phone (”the Google Maps viewer is the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. I am not kidding. It does UK maps as well. Wow. Just, wow. I will never, ever be lost again”). That falls dramatically into the category of “Famous Last Words”. Actually trying to use it taught me two things: [...]
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