Articles and websites of note

There's not a lot on mobile p2p but there is some. Here's some articles

• The BBC had an article way back in 2002 which said "Phones join file-sharing revolution".
• New Scientist article from 2004: "File-sharing leaps from internet to cellphones"
• Infoworld has an article saying SK Telecom previews file sharing for 3G phones.

And some software:

• Symella is a Gnutella client for S60 Symbian phones (same target devices as my bittorrent client)
• MobileDC is a Direct Connect client for UIQ (Sony Ericsson, P800, P900 etc) phones.
• Simeda had a program called Pocketster which was a webserver and content discoverer for Windows Mobile.
• Melodeo were thinking about software which users pay for then download songs from a server then can Bluetooth 30 second clips to friends.

There are more mobiles (cell phones) than desktop computers. There is more BitTorrent traffic than HTTP or email. I'm planning on putting (some) mobile phones with BitTorrent. In a few years there may be more data transfered through software like mine than any other software. That's insane!

Feature pack and Edition confusion

Symbian phones come in S60 (series 60), S80, S90 and UIQ. UIQ is touchscreen (e.g. Sony Ericsson P900), S80 is the Nokia Communicator range and S90 is the Nokia 7710 touchscreen TV phone. The most common is S60, which is what I'm going to be programming in.

As new technologies arrived new editions of S60 were released. Feature packs were also added. Here's a list of most S60 phones released as of April 2006. I'm working on a Nokia 7610 but I'm hopeing to get a Nokia N80 later.

Most Python libraries work on all editions and feature packs.

2nd edition FP 3

Nokia N70

Nokia N90

2nd edition FP2

Nokia 6682

Nokia 6681

Nokia 6680

Nokia 6630

Lenovo P930

2nd Edition FP1

Nokia 3230

Nokia 6670

Nokia 6260

Nokia 7610

Nokia 6620

2nd edition

Nokia 6600

Panasonic X800

Panasonic X700

Samsung SGH-D730

Samsung SGH-D720

1st edition FP1

Nokia 3660

Nokia 3620

Nokia 3600

Nokia N-Gage QD

Nokia N-Gage

Nokia 3650

Sendo X

Siemens SX1

1st edition

Nokia 7650

Info from here.