Locking down a UIQ phone — Sony Ericsson P800, P900 and P910

sticklebrick 27 Jan 2005, 09:55

Does anyone know if it's possible to take a P900/P910 and lock it down so it only runs a single application? Specifically, we're thinking of supplying some phones to be used solely for a data entry task, so we don't want users to be able to use the phone for browsing, phone calls, texting or any other non-business use that costs money.

We can supply the phone with GPRS-only SIMs so that should stop the potential for personal calls (and maybe texts), but it doesn't help prevent personal browsing. Can the browser be uninstalled or is it in ROM? Hidden maybe?

Any opinions would be very helpful!

Cheers,
Sticklebrick

dansansome 27 Jan 2005, 10:01

can you not just make sure that the access points are not in the phone?

that would at least slow the users down in getting on the net.

just my 2p...

sticklebrick 27 Jan 2005, 10:11

It's definitely an option but wouldn't that also prevent any data entry app we wrote from accessing the network? If browser and Java access points are seperate then I like it!

Alternatively I guess we could set up our own access point of some sort? Anyone know if that's feasible?

Cheers!