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Last month I brought Vodafone 802SE to South East Asia, i.e., Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. It worked flawlessly in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Singapore and Batam (Indonesia). However, I never worked at all in other Indonesian areas within Riau province and Jakarta that I visited. The 802SE simply could not log into any available GSM network. I tried various SIM cards (Simpati, Halo, Mentari) to no avail. On the other hand, my Motorola A1000 worked flawlessly (it did crash quite often though..).
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The rumor was true, eBay bought Skype. eBay is said to improve seller/buyer communication with Skype. Continuing my rants about IP telephony service, I just wish that eBay would make it better (I doubt). Well Skype used to work rather OK, in fact I once won the bid on eBay and called seller in UK over SkypeOut. But now Skype, especially SkypeOut, never really works. I suspect that Skype user base has outgrown Skype’s infrastructure (and perhaps technology).
Time for another new name in IP telephony service?
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In order to localize menu etc on Symbian UIQ, put this on *.rss file
CHARACTER_SET UTF8
and save the *.rss (and *.rls) file using UTF8.
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Symbian development getting started and other docs:
Symbian technical docs at Symbian.com
Symbian opensource resources:
Opensource links at Symbian.com
Symbian OS Opensource Community Center
This is one that perhaps can help me writing my own news aggregrator:
Phonetasia
(but this does not seem to support pass-through connection?)
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I could not find enough organized information on OPL, and the available OPX does not seem to be enough for writing a real application I have in mind (news aggregrator). I turned to C++ and found the tools are available at Mocoder. But information on how to begin is so scarce, I don’t even know what to do after the SDK installation. After googling fruitlessly, I found that DoCoMo has a very beginner-friendly explanation for M1000 development, and A1000 is very similar to M1000 so I finally could compile a sample program.
Here are the steps to prepare development environment for A1000 development:
1. Install the A1000 SDK
2. Create logical drive for the SDK
subst Q: C:\Symbian\A1000SDK
3. Set environment variables
Symbian
set EPOCROOT=\
set PATH=\epoc32\gcc\bin;\epoc32\tools;%PATH%
VisualC++
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT
That’s it, ready for compilation.
Go to the directory where “bld.inf” resides, then run “bldmake bldfiles”. Then run” abld” with appropriate options. For example “abld wins” for creating binary for the emulator, or “abld urel” for creating binary for real A1000.
Then when ready for testing on real A1000, or for distribution, create the .sis package using “makesis”. Find the *.pkg file and run “makesis .pgk, and the result is .sis package ready to be installed into A1000 via Motorola Desktop Suite.
Editing and debugging can be done with VisualC++ IDE. Execute “abld makefile vc6″ then *.dsw and other necessary files will be created under Q:\epoc32\BUILD\. For example, when the source code is located at Q:M1000\M1000SAMPLEAPP1_HELLOM1000 then the VC6 project files are located at Q:\epoc32\BUILD\M1000\M1000SAMPLEAPP1_HELLOM1000\GROUP\
HELLOM1000\WINS
The rest of the instruction can be found on M1000 doc below.
Links:
Developing for FOMA M1000
