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SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
natecow | 09 December, 2006 13:18
After talking with Ken Banks and others at the W3C Symposium on the Mobile Web for the Developing World in
Now back in
So my questions to the readers out there:
1. How do these SIM applications work?
When I send a request for traffic information, does that simply send a SMS to the service provider with the relevant keywords? Or is it a service request – like dialing *144# to check your balance? Or can it be either?
2. How do we develop our own SIM applications?
There seem to be a couple of SIM application toolkits out there. Which one should we use to develop our applications? What are the differences? Tips/pointers/advice would be very welcome...
3. What methods can we use to deploy these applications across Kenya?
Service providers seem to pre-load their sim cards with these applications. However, if I had the green light from
Unfortunately, the most likely case is that I won’t be able to get any cooperation from the service providers to install my application on their sims. In this scenario, what other ways can I get a SIM application deployed in
I know phones can read and write data to the SIM card – is it possible to get a mobile phone application that will install a new service directly on the SIM card? That way it could be possible to get the tens of thousands of local entrepreneurs who sell scratch cards to also offer a service involving putting a customer’s sim card into their own phone and writing the desired application directly to the card.
Would love to get some feedback from the developer community about the validity of this rather low-tech concept... Thanks!
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Re: SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
natecow | 13/12/2006, 16:15
Thanks a lot Michael!
Re: SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
bertrandkania | 14/12/2006, 11:31
just saw your questions on how to deploy applications on SIM cards . Didi you get some any feedback on these questions? I am quite interested on that .
BR
bertrand
Re: SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
deprimer | 15/12/2006, 21:27
Includes this PDF list: http://www.simagine.axalto.com/summer2006pdf/SIM%20applications%20portfolio.pdf
Re: SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
adamsingolda | 21/12/2006, 18:46
I wanted to ask several questions, please mind my ignorance regarding that field.
1) Can i write native Nokia code that will be placed over Nokia devices (Not running symbian), not a J2ME
2) The reason for doing that leads to my following question, i want to access the SMS inbox of the device (and that is not possible using J2ME - Sandbox)
I hope you could help me, thanks.
Adam S.
sim application
saratchandra | 09/11/2007, 09:43
sir,
i am looking for a small icon with few option will place in sim?
In my sms there is a password field and it must to load in all type of cell phones
can you help, please?
SAT
Nitin SuperByte | 13/05/2008, 14:52
I think SIM APPLICATION TOOLKIT Programming is the way for doing this task. I had read a lots of ETSI docs long time ago. UICC reads the SMS PDU in three forms SMS Commnd Type is the way which contains some information, but umfortnatly we are only aware with SMS Submit and SMS Deliver Type PDU. I was almost very close to set PDU of SMS Command Type but the feild Kc Kid blocked my way... Well all the above are my assumptions as i read from ETSI Docs.. If anybody is doing in this field, can contact me, i'll be happy to contribute in knowledge sharing.
Re: SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
sideshowbarker | 13/12/2006, 15:11
I posted a message with your questions over on the keitai-l mailing list:
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2006-12/0033.html
(I suspect that registration process that people need to go through to post comments here might deter a few from taking the time to do it.)