Developer-friendly cell phones

[ArmchairAthlete]

I finally need to get a cell phone, but how can I make sure it's one I can possibly develop games or other programs for (and be able to use them on the phone)?

How do you move your programs to a phone? I know ordinarily they've got it set up so you have to pay up to download full versions of games wirelessly, but do any connect via USB to a PC?

Other concerns are obvious: how much memory and cpu speed it has, possibly how good the screen display is.

I'm already good at Java, so J2ME would be the easiest tool to use although it's performance is pretty slow for games.

EDIT: Do you host the files on your site and get your phone to download them wirelessly?

 

[Drakkon]

http://howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=194

I have a motorola v300 and i can dev simple java games on it...nothing runs too great but it works for simple games...you buy a cable off ebay for $8 and can find software that lets you upload to the phone and from that your all set once you learn the dev tool your programming

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=194

I have a motorola v300 and i can dev simple java games on it...nothing runs too great but it works for simple games...you buy a cable off ebay for $8 and can find software that lets you upload to the phone and from that your all set once you learn the dev tool your programming

Cool, thanks for the suggestion.

Is there any site with a list of J2ME-supporting phones that you can hook up to your PC with a cable like you've described? That would be most helpful.

Also, if I got a phone online... do I have to go to some store to get it service, or is there some online way to set it up with a service plan? Heh, so much I don't know about cell phones.

 

[gorcorps]

I've always like Sony Ericsson phones. You can develop Java and Mophun games for those. You can also develop better programs for the various things they can do (camera apps, theme constructor, ringtone music composer, whatever). Most of the Ericssons have a cable also, but the newer ones are bluetooth enabled for wireless transfer.