[Noisebridge-discuss] cell phone interfacing, Android

[travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org]

Hey all,

Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever seen any projects involving
computer-to-cell phone interfacing?

I would expect it would be easiest with fancy phones, like the iPhone
and Android - possibly over bluetooth - but I'm actually more
interested in cheap tracfones, because I would only need to use it
occasionally and I don't want to pay an additional $100/mo :-)

I'll google this when I get around to the project, but just curious if
anyone knows of stuff off the top of your head.

BTW, if anyone is interested in the Android platform, here's my
annotated list-of-links:

http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/android.html

Oh, and it's worth noting that you DON'T NEED A PHONE TO DEVELOP FOR IT.

The emulator is very high quality, and it runs the same ARM binaries
as the actual phone.  Sure, you don't have access to bluetooth, or
some of the other hardware things, but it's really, really easy to get
started.  It took me about a day to have my first working Android app.

In my opinion, the security model is much better than the iPhone, and
the development tools are much less idiosyncratic (Java rather than
Objective-C and Cocoa), and the barrier to entry is lower (you can dev
in Linux or Windows, and you don't need an actual phone).
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