mobile-phones

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I'm about to begin an ASP.NET application that will be targeted towards iPhones, Blackberries, and Windows Mobile browsers. Aside from the iPhone, I haven't been able to find much information on what technologies these platforms support. Since I'm used to developing for desktop browsers, I like using things like jQuery and advanced CSS features. It looks like I won't be able to use these things on a mobile platform. What I was wondering is if anyone knew good developer's resources where I could find what works for mobile browsers (like a quirksmode.org for mobile devices). As far as I know,

I want to design a website that can send and receive sms. How should I approach the problem ? What are the resources available ? I know php,python what else do I need or are the better options available? How can experiment using my pc only?[somthing like localhost] What are some good hosting services for this? [edit this] [Add more questions you can think of?] You can take a look at Kannel . It's so simple to create SMS services using it. Just define a keyword, then put in the URL to which the incoming SMS request will be routed (you'll get the info such as mobile number and SMS text in query

I've noticed that chinese mobile phones became very popular, perhaps because of their very reasonable price and many modern features (touch screens, advanced multimedia, double sim cards etc). I'm wondering if there's any way to develop custom solutions for this handsets as independent developer? How to obtain a toolkit and documentation? I've found some resources, but mainly inconsistent tech notes, often in chinese only. For now I know, that majority of chinese handsets are based on chips from MediaTek (MTK), with operating system based on Nucleus RTOS and MMI (plutoMMI?) framework.

I would like to make a free version of the Android app I have, but would like to embed ad on it. I am not sure where I should start? Is there a well known mobile ad company out there that is specialized in mobile advertising? snctln I have personally used both Admob and Adsense . I was wary when I first implemented ads thinking that my users would be upset, but I have not received one complaint from over 500,000 active installations. The only permission that you need to add for either ad SDK to work is the android.permission.INTERNET permission. Admob is open for anyone above the age of 18 to

I have a mobile site and I'd like to redirect users to the domain.mobi or mobile.subdomain (we have both setup) How do I determine a mobile browser Is it bad practice to have the mobile site on a different domain or subdomain? How do I determine a mobile browser Here's some javascript that will do the job: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html Is it bad practice to have the mobile site on a different domain or subdomain? It's good practice, and a popular convention is to use http://m.yoursite.com for mobile if your main url is http://yoursite.com Noah It isn't bad practice. I appreciate

Is developing a website for a cellphone a totally different world? How would I detect whether a page is visited from computer or from a cellphone? I ask this because I see code like below: if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'vnd.wap.wml')!==FALSE) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'text ml') === FALSE || (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'vnd.wap.wml') < strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'text ml')) )) { //cellphone readfile('index.wml'); } else readfile('index.htm'); How do I port the code into C#? In php you would typically check the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']