Xmas progress

I’ve been playing about with different technologies to drive the peer-to-peer system – or as I like to call it the phone2fone system. I had first thought about using J2ME. I’ve used it in the past and it seems the most obvious but I’ve had some interesting times with it. Transfering data to and from a server is not the easiest of things to make it do plus, one of my test phones which can run Java games won’t run my demo. I think it’s because of the version of J2ME I’m using is too new. The phone is around 2 years old which is positively ancient I guess BUT I’ve got this non-exclusion policy when it comes to things like this so I had a bit of a rethink.

There’s a new(ish) verison of XHTML called XHTML MP which was developed with mobile devices in mind. Since I found it, I’ve managed to upload and download files on all my test phones and have been able to use sessions to control logins. Cookies is the next thing on my list to do. I’ve even managed to write a browser detection routine so I can now distinguish between mobile and “normal” browsers. I want to be able to do this so that if anyone comes across the site using a normal computer, they’ll be sent to a different page. Access to the system has to be from a mobile device otherwise it beats the whole object. Anyway, I’ve also discovered that you can put a link on a page that when clicked will make your phone call a number. How cool is that???