Kiran Trivedi's Forum Nokia Blog

Sense the Surroundings-World's Hottest Mobile Eco Sensor

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:20:06 +0200

Hi All,

Recently during Nokia Developer Conference at Bangalore, India I demoed my Mobile Eco Sensor. The system is basically open source (hardware+software) system. Eco sensor is one of the most demanding application in today's world. The application was also showcased at Mobile World Congress 2009 at Barcelona, Spain by Symbian Foundation. It has numbers of features integrated in like Metal Detection, Alcohol/LPG/Various Gas detection and humidity and temperature of surroundings. The Mobile phone can also be used as Breath Analyzer. It is a next generation Mobile Sensor accessories. The beauty of the system is it is 100% open source in terms of hardware and software as well.

The Eco sensor has features like : REal time temperature measurement, humidity, distance sensor, motion sensor, UV detection, metal detection, Enviornmental Gas analysis and much more.The links to see the video is here. Fore more details please visit at http://mobapps.org/Applications/Eco-Sensor

Python Workshop at Computer Society of India.

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:15:50 +0200

Gujarat(India) on a roll in Mobile Application Development...

It is just another example that the students in Gujarat are very keen and interested in Mobile Field.
This time it was the celebration day of Computer Society of India at the venue Baroda(India).The registrations for the workshop were full before week and the hall was fully packed on the event day with about 200 students.

The one-day workshop was entirely conducted by Chintan Umraliya and Gargi Das giving the students a hands-on experience on PyS60 platform. The first session by Gargi Das introduced various development platforms and the fundamentals of mobile technology. The session gave a brief introducton of various supports and platforms provided by Forum Nokia to the developers.
In second and final session conducted by Chintan Umraliya gave live demostration of application development using PyS60. The session highlighted various developer tools, services and resources provided by Forum Nokia.

The event was attended by many IT experts from the industry.I would like to thank FORUM NOKIA for their support in the workshop...

'Condom' Ringtone a smash hit in India

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:22:07 +0300

Hi All,

I would like to show that how mobile phone VAS is becoming integral part of our life. This post is not about "Playboy" magazine or HUGH HAFNER...!!

It's all about HIV/AIDS campaign in India. The NACO - National AIDS control organization of India with BBC support started an AIDS awareness campaign and surprisingly they came up with an idea of Ringtone. The ringtone was hit and it was downloaded 1.5 lac times in just 10 days..

Here goes the link to read the full article..

Wanna test it just click here... "Condom Capella"

iPhone First Review in Mid Day India - Setback for Apple

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:58 +0300

During a Code camp at Mumbai I came across first review of iPhone ..Look at the snap.

Forum Nokia Mumbai Code Camp on WRT was a great success..

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:52:09 +0300

Hi, It was a great experience to be a part of WRT code camp at Mumbai by FN India team and Symbian. There were great sessions by Prakash, BDM who showed a very interesting picture of WRT and its market trends with business models. Balagopal was impressive on giving a good head start to all the participants, he made learning so easy and quick that everybody was able to make and edit widsets at the end of the day. The symbian support was also great, Sunila Rao, Head Eco system and BTRT Naidu, Training Manager presented symbian stand for mobile application development support. They talked on symbian training and resources provided by Symbian to the mobile application developer support community.

Overall it was a great day and participants were from every field students, developres, CEOs, managers. I hope that Indian developres will soon be attracted towards Widset development. The arrangment was also nice, everybody was provided tools and laptops so hands on session in code camp was really a nice experience.

Cheers to Balagopal, Prakash, Sunil and Naidu...

PyS60 + MWS workshop was a great Success..!!

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:28:02 +0300

I am very happy to annouce that the work shop was a great success. Theparticipant were really exciting and most importantly they were amazed with the functionality of the MWS which i showed them live from mymobile and finland.I had kept the contest and the application of "Mobile recycle bin" got the prize of Nokia device. Many other ideas which were reallyinnovative and thanks to PyS60 that could make it in 24 hours after learning for the first time.

We had kept live registration FN and i think more than 40 registered during the lab sessions. I will soon upload the pics of the event. I hope that there will be few next FNC for sure in future.
Thanks to you and FN for everything.

We had kept hands on practical lab sessions also and participants were happy to see their applications running on the emulator.

Gargi Das a student of mine took keen effort to make this event a great success also took few sessions and he enlightened participants with FN and the support developers can get from it. He took tireless effort in sloving queries of the upcoming developers.

Finally all had a feeling of a team who are interested in mobile application development.

They had really a memorable time during the event and those who miss to register for the event felt that they have really lose something. A guy named Mulani came up with an idea of "Mobile Recycke bin" and he won the prize of Nokia device (which was sponsered by me and my friend Mehul Jajal !! :-))

Thanks to FN for everything

More event photographs are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/krtrivedi/PyS60

Regards

Kiran

Nokia E65 | What is the meaning/usage of these symboles?

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:16:32 +0300

I would like to ask Great FN users what is the meaning of the symboles on the keypad of the mobile phone shown below. I have tried but not able to find out what does it mean. I would like to specially for key numbers 1,2,3,4,5 voice mail symbole is common.

Bhavnagar is Back with Workshop on Python for S60

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:25:18 +0300

Hi All PyS60 enthusiastic..!!

FN community is aware of previous events held at Bhavnagar, India with FN support. This time my college students are organizing a two day event called "Technomantra-2k8". It provides the opportunity to the students to learn the latest trends from the industry. The Workshop will be on "Rapid Mobile Application Development on Python for Nokia Series60 Phones ". The workshop will be taken on 4th and 5th .The workshop will be taken by me and my student Gargi Das.Both the workshops will provide the students the brief knowledge about various aspects of the technology. Morover the students will be provided required software tools and guidelines. Registration of the workshops will be on first come first basis.

FN rewards best mobile developers with a reward and recognition program of FNC with latest device as gift. In this workshop to motivate students I have kept a small contest and I will reward the best application with a Nokia S40 device though the device is not S60 but I can afford this much only..! I think award can not be measured by price.

I will be motivating students with various contest of Nokia like "Mobile web server challenge", "The great wiki contest" and mainly the Forum Nokia India contests.

Apart from PyS60 workshop I will guide participants how to develop content for Mobile web server and I will show my live mobile web server running during the program.

I have a message for all participants and other Indian FN users

1. NEW!! Forum Nokia India site!!

Sign up now to stand a chance to win N95 8GB!! :)

http://www.forumnokia-india.com

2. The Forum Nokia Great Wiki Quest!!

Win an N810 Internet Tablet - there's one to be won every fortnight!

Log on NOW to:
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3. Forum Nokia : Recommend-A-Friend Contest
Spread the word to win!!

Tell your friends about Forum Nokia and stand to win an N95 8G! The more you recommend, the closer you get to the prize!

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Closing Date: 31st May 2008

Android is just an impluse..! Nokia Developers..

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:29:10 +0200

Hi,

I visited the details of Android, At first impression it seems a change for mobile users but nothing new by them. simply a phone with few google products at the initial stage. People will not waste their time to learn again something based on java. Android will take few years to build a community like FN.

The best part of Android is opensource. Nokia can also open upto some extent, as its finally a business winning race. The negative part of android is it looks like a computer kindda interface, they are not able to bit Nokia-symbian a truly mobile OS. Coding also seems a bit tedious task in android, while nokia's python for series 60 is open source and Rapid application development.

I would like to say no need to worry Nokia developers just be careful of new comer, The market share, operator support, developers worldwide and great community of Forum nokia are the big PLUS for Nokia. I think android will take decade to reach here, and in this decade Nokia symbian will always be ahead of it. I would end up with an example -- The new android can be a threat for second and third position between iphone and gphone.

The bandwidth in India Nokia is in favor of it, neither apple nor google have the talent to create a new network, it would require someone like Nokia Siemens Network to do that hardware, software.

Google Phone seems like a phone preloaded with google tools, just like the iphone is really just a phone preloaded with ipot stuff. Neither of them have anything new.

What Google and Apple brought out was Marketing.

Nokia still remains at the top. Let them fight...!!

regards

Kiran