As an Assistant Professor, I'm teaching Symbian OS at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. My company "Mopius" is developing mobile software with a special focus on Symbian OS.
Category: S60
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...
Checking your code with SymScan in Carbide.c++
A few days ago, I was appointed as one of the new Forum Nokia Champions and am really glad to be part of the team! Nearly at the same time, the developer resources portal at http://www.symbianresources.com/ was updated with the latest material from the Symbian OS-courses that I held this...
Who am I?
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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- Mobile Surround Sound
- Automatically Calling Back Saves Money
- Abandon your Privacy
- Euro 2008? -> Table Soccer on your phone!
- Mobile Game Controllers: Problem Solved!
- Efficiency Boost - New Carbide.c++ Panic Lookup Plug-In
- ShakerRacer is now Open Source!
- 3D games and more – Java ME course materials available
- ShakerRacer: Real RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor
- Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60
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