S60 Open to new features

One of the things I find bothersome on Facebook is the need to manually keep my profile up-to-date. With this in mind we have developed a simple application that you can put in your profile and it allows your friends to check your status such as calendar availability and location. Since the data is pulled straight from the device it is always up-to-date.

In addition to status data your friends can send you a free text message directly from the profile. Messages appear on the phone just as a normal text message. What am I seeing right now? Your friends can ask a live photo from your device with a single click on the application.

The application is now available for everybody, and requires the latest Mobile Web Server 1.3 beta to run. Let us know what you think!

Live Status from my Nokia Phone

-Jukka

Just a quick note to those of you are going to Barcelona for the S60 Summit. We have a presence there, in Expo/Reach area. My colleagues Juha and Jorma are happy to show you the latest new stuff in person. You can also drop your comments here as always.

-Jukka

I guess it would be best to start off with an introduction of sorts. My name is Antoine RJ Wright and I write for both the Mobile Ministry Magazine and Brighthand websites. For me, exploring mobile technology has always been about connecting with people and exploring the road not-yet-traveled in respects to use. Its with this perspective that I started investigating the Mobile Web Server, and one day decided to download it and check it out for myself. This piece is largely my reflections on it both as a replacement to the Mobile Ministry Magazine website, and my reasons for moving my personal website to MWS despite my antiquated device (compared to newer Nokia offerings).

Some of the new things available in Mobile Web Server 1.3 beta is a set of RESTful APIs. These APIs provide a direct access to some of the device resources, for example to be used from other web services.

Our first APIs have the following features:
- get Presence information from the device such as calendar availability, time and current profile
- send "free text messages" into the phone inbox

The APIs are documented in our wiki. Go start playing, and of course don't forget to submit your results in MWS Challenge there is still time!

-Jukka

A new version of the Personal AMP - Apache, MySQL and PHP - stack for S60 is now available!

As the last time, it can be downloaded from SourceForge and installation instructions are provided in our wiki.

This version can fully replace the web-server of MWS 1.3, so that you can use all Python based web applications of MWS, and at the same time play with PHP and MySQL. Note though, that as PAMP has fewer capabilities than MWS, the functionality of some web-applications of MWS will be restricted. But please read those installation instructions, as you can't just simply install the PAMP sis on top of MWS.

So, if you want to move closer to the bleading-edge, install PAMP, but be prepared that there are still rough edges. For technical discussions and support, please use the Forum Nokia discussion board.

Have lots of Fun!

Johan

Here is a message from Karri Kalpio, which I promised to put up in the blog:

We'll be presenting a very cool Java based content management system based on eSWT powered user interface. The link between that and Mobile Web Server is that because our demo concentrates on the new widget set soon available in S60 based smartphones we utilize MWS to handle all the actual content delivery. I think this is conceptually pretty cool: whichever application could behave in a similar fashion and simply make the content generated in phone to be distributed by MWS. Especially now that the new sensor framework is becoming available the amount of data that may be generated and processed in the device I cannot even start to imagine all the new possibilities this might open!

If you - or somebody else playing with MWS - happens to be participating JavaOne, please come to see us in Nokia booth #818!

--karri

I haven't seen the demo yet myself, but it was nice to hear Karri & eSWT folks could use MWS to enable their demo. Drop your comments here!

-Jukka