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to: Randall Parker
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-05-20 12:47:50
subject: Re: Cellphones as app development platform for web and other purposes?

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Randall,

Take a trip to a mobile phone store, and check out the web via a BB, use
the .mobi extension and see what shows up.

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Glenn M.
"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:465072fc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Geo. wrote:
>> "Randall Parker"
>>

>> wrote in message news:464fcf1e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> What do you think of cellphones as an application development platform
>>> target?
>>
>> If you are developing GPS, camera software, MP3 utils, perhaps, as a web
>> browser  never, I can't even read a simple
email page on
>> the damn things without scrolling every 3rd word..
>>
>
> So how many words can your cellphone display?
>
> The Nokia 5700 and 6120 both can display 240x320. The Nokia E61i does
> 320x240. But for another cellphone (forget the model) it displays 128x192.
> I suspect the latter is more typical.
>
> With 128x192 how many characters across can it display? 10? 8? How many
> down? How much of that space is used for status bar and other info aside
> from the text you want to view?
>
>> Geo.

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