Wifi abroad and external batteri

I am visiting France later this year. I want my mobile to upload GPS positions online during a whole week.

For that I need a prepaid sim card for France. Google gave me https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=prepaid+phones&oq=pre+pa&aq=1s&aqi=g1g-s3g1g-s5&aql=&gs_l=igoogle.3.1.0j0i10l3j0j0i10l5.52481.55992.0.62143.6.6.0.0.0.0.118.599.4j2.6.0…0.0.#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=YtYuWo7li1LQMMVG5dduMA&pq=prepaid%20phones&cp=19&gs_id=16&xhr=t&q=prepaid+sim+card+france&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=prepaid+sim+card+fr&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=b10f389bad4889f0&biw=1324&bih=928

From that I got this nice offer from LeFrenchMobile on Euro 7,- for a week: http://www.lefrenchmobile.com/en/data-bundles.html. So that will cover wifi for the mobile.

For Japan Prosa advises hiring a NTT Docomo from Global Advanced Communications. http://www.globaladvancedcomm.com/pocketwifi.html.
Ref: Prosa article: http://www.prosa.dk/aktuelt/nyhed/artikel/mobile-rejsetips-fra-solens-rige/

Next I need the mobile to be charged by an external battery. One such could be like this: http://www.b2c-battery.com.au/accessory_detail.php/24+3974+Universal-External-Battery-for-Digital-Camera,-Mobile-Phone,-PDA,-Camcorder-and-Game-Player. The batteri can be charged in advance with cord to AC.

But even better would be a device where you can just change batteries inside.

The End.

Hw: Touch Screen, Accelerometer and other devices

Inspired by Thomas Martinsen, a dk Silverlight guru, this post collects a few ideas about the less used user interfaces in the PC world, but easily obtainable in the mobile world.

Having six devices to code towards in mind:

1. Touch Screen
2. Accelerometer
3. Bluetooth
4. RFID
5. GPS
6. SMS

Many cell phones has all 6 pieces of HW included. So if you developed mobile services that could expose the HW facilities to a client PC (connected either through mini-USB, old fashioned serial, wlan or bluetooth), then you would get enormous application possiblities.

I blogged about Accelerometer, RFID and SMS usage before. At that post the accelerometer was a Wii NunChuck . Nowadays the accelerometer is build into the mobile phone and API’s has emerged.

WinMo 6.5 SDK was removed last month. Maybe WinMo 7 SDK is what Microsoft developers should have to get API’s for the 6 devices?

Thomas has spoken about touch screen development towards a device from Microsoft called Surface. I wouln’t be surprised if he is experienced in  the field. Join the LinkeIn group.

Another keyword is Panel PC.

Currently I won’t collect more info, but I might return with an update to the post one day.

So for now you might just be inspired as well :-).

The End.

Mobile: Why wouldn’t my mobile call out?

My mobile wouldn’t call out. What was wrong?

I thought it had something to do with network setup.

Found a nice page that showed the awailable networks (including MCC and NCC) in many countries.

After playing around a while it loked like the network selection had nothing to do with the problem.

And also incoming calls did work. SMS too.

So I started loking elsewhere. It turned out that the problem was here:

Call Setup – Line Switching was set to Line 2. This had to be changed to Line 1! Now I could call out.