Imagine a handy news ticker on the screen of your phone, which is updated constantly.
It would work by using a simple 'macro-like' program:
1) The phone opens the services menu every hour or so.
2) Opens a pre-defined link at BBCi's new headlines (for example).
3) Takes a screen shot.
4) Sets this screenshot as the background.
Viola!
A far better way of doing it would be to program an application which scolls the latest news using an existing, open news ticker. This could be set as a screen saver and would scroll accross the screen, in much the same way as the defult Nokia clock. But this would undoubtedly be more expensive and time consuming to produce.
I'd always know the latest Spurs news, any stock analysist could keep an eye on their favourite stocks, etc. etc.
Well? 😃
The lastest Spurs news would be quite handy 😉
But wouldn't you always have to be connected by GPRS? It would cost a fortune to run.
Not to me it wont :P
lucky me ! 😊
Depending on how it connected....
If it was via GPRS WAP, Orange & O2 (in the UK) offer all inclusive deals for a few quid a month. Most SP's in Singapore/Malaysia etc. seem to do the same. I'm sure it'll catch on everywhere. It'd only take a couple of KB's per news update. You could set it to only update twice a day and it would still be far cheaper than sms updates at 20-50p a go.
An even better idea would be to use a WAP push portal, but agin very expensive solution to a non-existant problem. It would have to be regionalised if it were done that way too, even more expensive.
It just struck me how much techno-geek-jargon-ism we speak.
If it was via GPRS WAP...
"If it was via general packet radio service over a wireless application protocol network inforstructure..."
Urggggggghhh! Geek! 😃
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Spurs are going to destroy the part-timers over at highbury on Saturday.
I suppose if you look at it that way it's quite a good idea.
Hell yeah, I'd buy it! 😃
It could even deliver headlines from my-symbian.info's news page.
In fact, you could customise it to go to any WAP site and retrieve the latest information.
Even simple HTML sites could be handled via webviewer or google's wap/web catalyst.
Something like an RSS content aggreagtor?
Would be nice.
RSS content aggreagtor
Oh yes, one of those. An RSS content aggreagtor. Yep. 😃
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Spurs are going to destroy the part-timers over at highbury on Saturday.[/quote]
LOL!!, don't you know it! 8)
And you'd get all the latest match info direct to the screen of your mobile for less than a penny with my new software:
OmarTicker 2003!