Archive for the ‘PocketPC’ Category:
My Experience with Dopod P800w Pocket PC Phone (GPS)
You might find this review a bit different from other Dopod P800w reviews out there because I decided to concentrate more on Dopod P800w as a development platform rather a general review of the PDA itself.
Dopod P800w is one of the latest Dopod PDA phone products that come with built-in GPS receiver. The device itself comes with Mapking 12 navigation software and maps around the region. Powered with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.1, the device supports GPS management interface to all GPS-aware application installed on the PDA.
J2ME / JavaME support
The device supports Java mobile application by default through Tao-Group’s Intent Midlet Manager which provides MIDP 2.0/CLD C 1.1 application support to Dopod P800w.
List of Pocket PC Freeware Websites
If you happens to be one of Pocket PC PDA owners that runs a variation of Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, then you might appreciate the website listed below to get tons of Pocket PC based freeware.
In no particular order, they are :
- http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/
- http://www.freewareppc.com/
- http://www.pdaarchives.com/
- http://www.pdagold.com/
- http://www.freecabs.de/
Most of these applications supports Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 operating system on ARM and XScale processor PDA which means it supports most Pocket PC products by popular vendor like Dopod, O2, HP, HTC and Toshiba
Next post, I'll publish the list of 'must have' freeware application for my Pocket PC PDA phone, so stay tuned.
[tags]pocketpc,pocket pc,pda,wince,windows,freeware,mobile,gadgets,mobile phone[/tags]
phoneME – Open Source Java ME (J2ME) Implementation
Following Sun Microsystem bold decision to release Java Platforms uder GNU/GPL, phoneME is an open source effort to ensure Java ME technology is the first class citizen on Mobile Devices.
phoneME it self is a fully featured open source JVM that fully supports MIDP and CLDC as well as a number of optional package JSRs that incorporate a variety of key wireless industry standards and capabilities.
With this, anybody can freely port phoneME to any mobile devices to provide it with a fully working JavaME environment. This would bridge the gap between the ever fragmented JavaME implementation between mobile devices in the market.
One of the phoneME objectives is to allow as many people as possible to participate in expanding JavaME features and robustness across mobile devices platform.
The source code and (Windows and Linux) binaries of phoneME is available on phoneME project download page.
p/s : Hopefully, somebody will come up with a completely free Java ME implementation in Pocket PC and other PDA platforms. Because although JavaME is designed to run on these devices, I still have hard time to find a decent implementation on these platform, (IBM J9 excluded).
[tags]java,javame,j2me,open source,opensource[/tags]
Mozilla Firefox browser on your Pocket PC PDA
Do you like using Mozilla Firefox in your pc and grown to love it? Do you despise using Internet Explorer when you're mobile? Then today must be your lucky day.
Although it is not quite a full replacement, Minimo is a project from the same people who brought you Mozilla Firefox. It uses the same Gecko engine which Firefox uses and its available on Pocket PC.
Minimo is available from its project website, and can be installed on Windows Mobile 4.2 or 5.0 devices. Now you can bring your Mozilla browser along on your Pocket PC !
Download Minimo Cab Installer [8.1 MB]
[tags]firefox,mozilla,ipaq,pda,windows mobile, mobile,pocketpc, pocket pc[/tags]
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Pda manufacturing companies introduced pdas with builtin GPS. However, pda gps , is more expensive than simple pda. Therefore, you can find cheap pda with fewer features within reasonable price range. Pdas with Bluetooth technology, like hp pda , is well used to access internet as well as mailboxes.
Run J2ME / JavaME jar in Pocket PC and Palm PDA
I decided to write this post because I find that there's many confusing solutions exists for installing J2ME/JavaME runtime environment for Pocket PC PDA. This is because neither Sun nor Microsoft has produced an 'official' Java Runtime Environment for Pocket PC devices.
Most solutions that I found on the internet are either outdated (the discontinued PersonalJava project) or other oddball VM (Waba,SuperWaba,EWE, Jeode) that incapable of running J2ME applications.
IBM Websphere Everyplace Micro Environment
Luckily, IBM has produced a runtime environment that's enables Pocket PC and Palm PDA to run J2ME applications. Formerly called J9, the runtime environment supports runnjing MIDP 2.0 / CLDC 1.1 without much fuss.
The only downside is that the Websphere Everyplace Micro Environment is not available for free. The J2ME runtime environment for Palm is already preinstalled in Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2, LifeDrive, Zire 72 handhelds or a Treo 650 smartphone devices.
The J2ME runtime environment is also available for other Palm supported device for $5.99 : More information at Palm J2ME website
The IBM Everyplace Micro Environment for Pocket PC is also available at the same price ($5.99) at the IBM Websphere website, Handago and other online Pocket PC store, (requires Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5).
Additionally, you might want to read this tutorial : Java Midlets on the Pocket PC - the Complete Tutorial
Non-expiring Trial version of the runtime environment is also available at the IBM Websphere website.
Now you can rest assured that your J2ME application will run on any mobile devices without much hassle.
PS:
Alternatively you can try this solution for running J2ME/JavaME in your Windows Mobile PDA
[tags]pocketpc,pocket pc, pda, j2me, mobile, java, javame[/tags]
Google Talk Mobile Phone Client – MGTalk 0.2.2
MGtalk is for those who want to stay online with their friend that uses Google Talk network. The client itself require phone that supports Java (tm) application with MIDP 2.0 capabilities, and it is relatively small in size (53KB).
I've compiled MGtalk specially for my readers that include minor modifications from the standard MGtalk. The minor modifications are :
- Removed various System.out (used for debugging ?)
- Add application icon
- Obfuscate jar file to reduce size
- Use alternative authentication server by default
- Recompress the jar file to save space
Download MGTalk :
- MGTalk.jar [53KB]
- MGTalk.jad
- MGTalk-mod.zip (source code)
You can visit http://mgtalk.sourceforge.net for the original MGTalk client, written by vorobev
[tags]nokia,mobile,google talk,mgtalk,jabber, j2me, midp, javame, google talk client,gtalk,jabber client,mobile messenger,messenger[/tags]
J2ME Phone Feature Comparison
Are you interested to develop J2ME / MIDP applications? confuse of which phone support which API? Then I found a website that might help you decide that :
Club-Java, a french java user group has release their findings on various J2ME enabled phone available on the markets.
Though the list do not include the phone quirks and bugs, but I think it is sufficient enough to say that the list did give me some idea on which device that might support my MIDlet application.
visit ClubJava for more information.
[tags]java,j2me,javame,midlet,mobile apps, mobile phone,midp[/tags]
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