A shout out to our friends at O'Reilly for the excellent Nokia Smartphone Hacks which set me up with just the information I needed. And that's about all I have to say about that.
Mobile Technology: September 2005 Archives
I've been spending more time getting to learn the features of my new cell phone. I started playing some iTunes track and then hid the player while I continued navigating through the menus.
I added a few more Java apps to the phone and was testing those as well. One was an app to display Google maps on the phone, another was a little demo "hello world" I had written, and another was the beginnings of an app I am putting together from pieces sample code in the various J2ME books I am currently reading.
I can't recall what the exact sequence of events was, but suddenly the phone locked up, leaving nothing but a single high pitched note blaring out. I couldn't stop the apps, I couldn't even power off the phone.
I opened up the battery compartment but my clumsy fingers couldn't seem to pry the battery loose. As a last resort I struck the keypad which finally shook the batter loose and silenced the deafening noise.
I replaced the battery on powered the phone back on and things seemed back to normal. Almost immediately after that, I received a notification that there were messages waiting. I checked my inbox and found that two sample messages that I had requested from Dodgeball.com the day before but never received had suddenly just been delivered.
I guess that there are still some bugs to be worked out.
I just picked up the new Motorola iTunes phone. Now all I have to do is figure out how to upload songs to it.
