Developing for the Samsung Uproar M100 Cell/MP3 Phone? 6
Michael Buffington asks: "I just picked up a Samsung Uproar cell phone combination MP3 player for a much reduced price of $179.00, which is a great deal when you consider what a nice digital mobile phone costs these days combined with the cost of even the worst MP3 player. I'm impressed with the phone and it's features, but would like know if any other owners of the phone have thought of the feasibility of developing software to interface the phone (other than the MusicMatch bloat-ware that's required on an Windows machine no less). I'm considering diving into USB driver programming, but before I do, I thought I'd Ask Slashdot to see if anyone has already figured out what's possible? It has 64MB of RAM, perhaps it could support a custom OS? Maybe rather than just being able to download MP3's, I could download phone numbers and appointments into the phone. Would be great to find out what the limitations are." That's a great price for such a combo and it would be an utter steal if this device can be extended beyond the limits of its existing software. Anyone else playing around with these and would care to share their thoughts and experiences on this device?
US and their phones (Score:2)
why beacuse the feds dont like weak crpto in GSM
(although they know how to break it they dont want to retool all their agents with new tools)
as for the phone it most likely is an ARM7 based phone with a DSP for the codecs
it proberly runs VxWorks from wind (wrs.com) or ITron wich the japanease like very much for some reason
linux already runs on ARM arch so no porting required (70% of shiped uprocessors are ARM so its not hard to find engineers)
no you cant sync it unless you know the custom way they do it best hope is to SMS all your numbers to an email account and pull them out of there (actually it costs less and is quicker just to type them in)
the only real hop is to buy a nokia (wich do MP3 as well) which people have a sync agent for (not sure about the symbian based one though (MP3 player on the symbian based one))
or complain and dont buy it and demand open stanards
(the syncML is not an open standard just one you have to pay for )
mind you syncML has a agent on linux thanks to IBM so that may help
in summary no sorry not until they sort out java and symbian/palm/WinCE phones will we have decent support
regards
john jones
Re:US and their phones (Score:2)
However, it still stinks that I can't just buy one phone that I like and use that one phone with any cellular network that I choose. I either have to buy a phone from the cellular provider or buy a used phone from someone that did. If there is a phone that works with all of the US cell networks, please let me know.
Doubt it... (Score:2)
On a brighter note, you should be able to write something to interface to the system and copy MP3's to the system, but you'd have to work out the USB protocols. I know there are serial sniffers available (ie, tools which listen to all traffic on serial lines which you can then read and use that to reverse engineer the protocol) and I'd imagine similar tools are out for USB.
Whatever you do try, get a web page up and try publicizing your work (eg, on newsgroups, but don't SPAM!) so that you can get others to help out; when I did the Solaris plugin for XMMS, I got several great patches from other users which transformed it from a flaky pile of junk into something which worked nearly flawlessly.
The music can be done, not sure about what else (Score:1)
Honestly, I would like to STOP dual booting to upload songs into my uproar.... but then, vmware 3 should help my rebooting problem.