[Cialug] hackable cell phone

[Matthew Nuzum]

Thanks Tim! This is exactly the message I was looking for. Apparently
its not what I remembered though. I was thinking this was a way to do
some mobile code development.

On Nov 26, 2007 9:09 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> I love GMail.  Here's the text of the original post (posted by Nate Smith,
> March 20, 2007)
>
> So you can now get Boostmobile (a pay-as-you-go phone service) phones in
> Iowa.  Why would you care?  For $30.00 you can get a Motorola i415 from
> Boostmobile.  for around $10.00 you can get a USB cable to connect to the
> phone.  This phone runs java applications (you may already have a phone that
> does this).  Then you can go to http://www.mologogo.com and sign up for a
> free account.  Download their java client and upload it to the phone.  Your
> phone will now report your location via GPS or cell network to the mologogo
> website marking where you are every n minutes or so.  That's kind of neat.
>
> Also, with the data cable the phone becomes a network access device.  It can
> be used as a modem, or it can be directly connected to the boostmobile
> network using ppp (use this 'S=2#777' instead of a phone number, no username
> or password).  So for $40.00 in hardware and $.30 cents or so per day you
> have it in use, you can get dial-up type connectivity to the Internet from
> your laptop no matter where you go.  It's slow, but you can get web pages.
> One really crazy thing, is that you can place calls on the phone while you
> are on the network.
>
> Mologogo is one of those social networking web 2.0 kinds of things.  It is
> like a GPS service that tell you and your friends where you are.  Ideally,
> your friends put their name in and your name in, and they can see where you
> are, and if you get close it can notify you.  On the phone, it can also
> display a Google-type map of your current position and local weather and
> traffic conditions if you are in a city that supports it.
>
> The phone comes with something like a $10 usage credit too.
>
> Fun stuff.
>
> -Nate
>
> http://www.mologogo.com
>
> tethered modem phone:
> http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1080295
>
> http://www.omgili.com/preview/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tcDNjYXIuY29tL3ZidWxsZXRpbi9zaG
> 93dGhyZWFkLnBocD90PTc1NDUx
>
> http://www.boostmobile.com  see also sprint/nextel stores - they resell
> boost mobile.
>
>
> -- end of post
>
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 9:08 PM, chris <chris at ia.gov> wrote:
> > Perhaps you mean this?  http://www.openmoko.org/
> >
> > chris
> >
> >
> > Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > > Seems like there was some discussion months back about a hackable cell
> > > phone, I thought it may be called "Boost" but maybe not. There was
> > > some application you could download that allowed you to share presence
> > > information with others (which probably isn't a great idea) because
> > > the cell phone provided a relatively cheap data plan.
> > >
> > > Yes, I know about android and I've downloaded the dev kit and done the
> > > hello world, and yes I'm glad I didn't buy an iPhone. However, in the
> > > meantime I'm curious if there is a hackable cell phone, in the sense
> > > that you can write your own applications (either stand alone or web
> > > enabled). Did I remember the name right (searching my e-mail folder
> > > yields no results, so I suspect I've got it wrong) and did I
> > > understand correctly that this phone is hackable?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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