(keitai-l) Re: about external keyboards for i-mode phones

From: Zev Blut <zev_at_atc.yamatake.co.jp> Date: 05/07/01 Message-ID: <00a801c0d6c8$e3df2830$da1414ac@taishakurhq>

How do you plan on talking to the keyboard interface via an i-appli?
I do not believe the standard API allows for communication outside of the
scratchpad and
Http connections.  Are you using the extended API provided by Panasonic?

Zev

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Minsky" <henry_minsky@hotmail.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: about external keyboards for i-mode phones

>
> I am in the process of reverse-engineering the P503i external
> keyboard, in order to be able to stuff GPS data and other data
> into an iAppli applet via the keyboard cable. The external keyboard
> works with Java applets, so it ought to be possible to use
> a small one-chip translator to convert a serial data stream into
> simulated key-presses, although I don:t know what data rate can be
>
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>
> Henry
>

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