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Thinking about what mobile phones can do except messaging and voice calls is one of my main interests. At the department of Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg (Austria), I can work on those ideas every day by collaborating with students, researching and - well - thinking.

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Andreas Jakl's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: S60

Fundamental changes in native Symbian OS development

Just announced rather silently in the Symbian Developer Newsletter, one of the biggest changes in the world of Symbian OS development is on its way. It's all about the letter L, which represents the new idiom of L-classes . According to the documentation PDF: "The L prefix denotes that...

The Phone’s Compass as a Game Controller

CarChallenge is controlled through the compass of the mobile phone. The Nokia 6210 Navigator is the first device from Nokia that features a magnetometer. It allows using the phone as a compass – very important for pedestrian...

Accelerometers Redefine the Game Experience

Accelerometers fully integrated into the game design - turn your phone to change the gravity of the environment! Nearly nobody noticed the Nokia 5500 Sports , most likely the first phone equipped with an accelerometer that was accessible for...

Mobile Physics

Draw abstract objects on the screen; they will instantly get physical properties! Physics engines simulate behaviour and motion of objects in a virtual world. With the increased processor resources available on today’s PCs, almost every...

Mopoid Workshop - Your Own Arkanoid-like Game for S60

Develop a full-blown Arkanoid-like game - and play it! Probably the largest and longest free workshop for S60 development is now available in a completely rewritten and updated version. The unique aspect: everything is explained based on a...

Mobile Surveillance Tools

SpyPhone / BabyPhone is a Python-application that monitors the surrounding sound level. At the core of every mobile phone, there’s still the voice channel. Therefore, every phone is equipped with a microphone that’s...

Explore .sis-files Online

whatisinmysis.com analyzes the contents of your.sis files. Ever wondered what's inside your .sis files? Which certificate was used to sign it? Does it have the right capabilities? Of course there are utilities that can help you with...

New Qt Training Materials

As you will most likely have noticed, Qt for S60 is going to be really big. Therefore, it’s a good idea to start learning Qt as soon as possible. One chance to do this is going to be the first public “Qt on S60” webinar (as announced by Lucian Tomuta ), which will...

Automatically Calling Back Saves Money

Auto Call Back can help you to save money. Starting with today, I'm now also on one of the hugely popular all-inclusive phone tariff plans. In Austria, every operator currently has a plan with a certain number of minutes (usually 1000 or...

Mobile Game Controllers: Problem Solved!

Play all the games you want on your mobile phone using mobiPad. The article „ Ten plausible things that would be really cool on N-Gage “ recently suggested that a Bluetooth game controller should be released for mobile phones....

Efficiency Boost - New Carbide.c++ Panic Lookup Plug-In

Everyone who has spent at least a few hours developing in C++ for Symbian OS will know about Symbian OS system error and panic codes. No doubt one of the most “famous” is the KERN-EXEC 3 (null pointer exception). But what if you encounter an E32USER-CBase 71? What is the error -5?...

A Case-Study of Porting Widgets to S60

With data transfer charges for mobile devices finally going down, mobile widgets might possibly be the next big thing to conquer the mobile phone software and at the same time the attention of the users. The case study...

Wii Controller + S60 Phone = Motorcycle Game!

Controlling a game on a mobile phone is often a bigger challenge than the game itself — with tiny buttons that are close together, playing a game can be cumbersome and inaccurate. Therefore, designers always have to adapt the games to the keyboard of mobile phones, which naturally limits...

Mobile Morning (Plus: New S60 Text-to-Speech App!)

Yesterday, I had an especially hard time getting up in the morning. This made me think about available tools that can help – and how these can be integrated with mobile phones. After all, you hear from time to time that the alarm clock in a mobile phone is one of the...

New Concepts for the Acceleration Sensor

As the fellow Forum Nokia Champion Arto Holopainen pointed out in his Forum Nokia Blog-posting , the 3D accelerometer in the Nokia 5500 is very useful for detecting if a person falls down. I’d like to introduce two applications that were developed in this winter semester by...