Michael,
Haven't spoken to you in a while...
This seems appears to me to be extremely fascinating and useful.
Perhaps we can start a blog to track and bring light to these
applications and how to develop them.
Dave
Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> Anybody know details about how SIM-based applications work,
> suggestions for how to develop them, or methods for deploying them?
>
> Nathan Eagle (of EPROM http://web.mit.edu/eprom/ and
> http://web.media.mit.edu/~nathan/) just posted the following a few
> days back:
>
> SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??
> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/view_entry.html?id=331
>
> excerpt: Here’s the problem: I live in a country (Kenya) where
> millions of people have extremely low-end phones (most phones
> don’t even have WAP browser, not to mention Java-support). I
> need another way to develop applications for these millions (1+
> billion globally) phones besides building standard SMS-based
> applications that depend on the user remembering the relevant
> phone number and keywords to text...
>
> After talking with Ken Banks and others at the W3C Symposium on
> the Mobile Web for the Developing World in Bangalore, we
> stumbled upon another option which I know very little about:
> SIM-based applications.
>
> He has a few questions:
>
> 1. How do these SIM applications work?
> When I send a request for traffic information, does that simply
> send a SMS to the service provider with the relevant keywords?...
>
> 2. How do we develop our own SIM applications?...
>
> 3. What methods can we use to deploy these applications across
> Kenya?...
>
> His posting is open for comments (URL above). Or if you reply
> here, I can try collate some responses and post them over there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Mike
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 14 16:19:03 2006