This is a DiscontinuedProject. Currently, no effort is made for further work here.
I have sold the phone, and turned back to Nokia. NEC was extremly un-cooperative in supporting this phone, and especially my questions to them. The whole story between me, E-Plus Germany, and NEC is too sad to tell. I have sold the cellphone and am no longer interested in it.
The phone
Some time ago, I have bought the NEC n21i mobile phone. It features an iMode "stack", and has a builtin browser for iMode pages, the WWW, and a mail client configured (by default) to use the phone network provider's mail server.
This phone, though, has certain limitations that I would like to overcome, mostly features I am used to from the Nokia phones I used before.
- Accept/Deny callers by caller group vs. phone profile setting
- Have more than three freely configurable phone profiles
- Be able to turn off light in "car" profile (to use it also as "headphone" profile, for example)
- Store more than 12 SMS
- Generate images, animations, and ringtones on UN*X machines
- Exchange phonebook (and other) data with UN*X systems
Research & Development...
I am trying to work around those limitations as far as possible -- though, I fear, only NEC could really provide all the features on my wishlist.
Here are some sub-projects I have created to handle the different aspects. One day, they all will have their own web pages to show my progress.
- Images and animations
- MLD files (ringtone melodies)
- Data exchange over wire
- Using another mail server
- Programming the n21i
- Phone hardware
- Phone software
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