Java midlets for Motorola
In winter/spring 2001 I participated in a contest organized by
Motorola St.Petersburg software development centre.
The contest participants developed Java applications for mobile phones.
I won a prize in the contest
and had to sell all rights for my applications to Motorola for 430$
(a bargain for them to be honest).
Apparently the goal of the contest was to collect ideas (for free) and
prototypes (for prize money) for phone applications.
As far as I know Motorola currently
develops commercial applications based on contest prototypes. Despite
the fact that I do not anymore own the applications I wrote and
can't legally give you the source code or the binaries, I still
can tell what exactly I developed and show you the screenshots.
Weather
This is in my opinion the most impressive application. It lets you get
realtime weather information and forecast for almost any major town
in the world. The actual data is taken from National Weather Service
server in the USA, and also from Yahoo Weather website.
Slashdot
When you are faced with a new development platform, what do you do first?
Of course you write a Slashdot browser for it! This application actually lets
you browse the Slashdot website, read the headlines, articles and comments.
Multiplication
A simple yet somewhat addictive puzzle where you have to make thoughtful
guesses about what number corresponds to what letter.
Color Lines
Oh yes. That notorious game that is able to waste days of your life.
My mom used to play the original PC version for hours.
You have to move balls around and make rows and columns of the same color,
that will disappear, providing you more space on the board.
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